Word: morizet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invasion of Grenada has brought to the forefront the necessity to redefine some terms in international law." Green and other experts are afraid that current readings of international law fail to take account of the many acts of indirect aggression that increasingly shape world politics. Says Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet, a former French Ambassador...
...organization's current plight is summed up bleakly by Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet, who was France's Ambassador to the U.N. from 1970 to 1972 and later Ambassador to Washington. Says...
...weaker and more discredited than at any other time I can recall. No one really takes the U.N. seriously." Nonetheless, Kosciusko-Morizet stubbornly defends the international organization in its latest period of trial. "There are a lot of steps the U.S. could take," he says, "between threatening pullout and letting Israel be expelled...
Other U.S. allies echo Kosciusko-Morizet's view that the organization, no matter how troubled it may be, still serves a purpose. Says a Bonn-based diplomat: "We do not underestimate the U.N.'s value as a peace-keeping force. We would not have had 30 years of peace in [Western Europe] without the U.N." British officials, who strongly agree with the Reagan Administration that U.N. agencies have become far too infected with Third World politics, particularly over the Arab-Israeli issue, feel that the U.N. remains a valuable diplomatic umbrella...