Word: moynihan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certain sense correct. It's misdirected critiscism to call even Unheavenly City a racist book. In the book Banfield chides massive welfare spending programs as false cures of urban ills and proposes an ideology to back up Daniel Patrick Moynihan's theory of "benign neglect" towards racial problems...
...have heard your voices. We embrace your hopes. We will join your efforts." With those words, written by U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger but delivered to the United Nation's Seventh Special Session last week by U.S. Ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan, Washington gave its answer to the share-the-wealth demands of the world's poor. In so doing, it at least temporarily forestalled anticipated bitter clashes between developing countries of the Third World and the rich industrialized West at the session...
...developing world and, in an aide's words, "how we can move from rhetoric to problem solving." Although extended negotiations in the Middle East have forced Kissinger to alter his plans for attending the session, his speech will be delivered by recently appointed U.N. Ambassador David Moynihan. Like Kissinger, Moynihan has long favored a comparatively hard-line approach to the Third World, especially toward the latter's habit of blaming the industrial world for many of its afflictions. In a controversial article in Commentary magazine, Moynihan chided the less developed nations for pursuing a "politics of resentment...
...world food reserve of 60 million tons to provide a cushion against crop failures. To solve balance of payments problems, it will suggest giving International Monetary Fund loans to countries that suffer trade shortfalls. In the face of opposition from key Cabinet members like Treasury Secretary William Simon, Moynihan is expected to announce that the U.S., for the first time, may be willing to tamper with traditional free-market mechanisms by entering into commodity pricing agreements with producer nations...
...Vetoes. The U.S., Moynihan explained, was ready to vote for the admission of both Viet Nams and of South Korea. But the Communists and such left-leaning but nonaligned members of the council as Iraq and Tanzania blocked South Korea's application from even being included on the agenda. U.S. policymakers were outraged, and the upshot was Moynihan's two vetoes. Never before had the U.S. used the veto to block a membership application.* The U.S., said Moynihan, "will have nothing to do with selective universality, a principle which in practice admits only new members acceptable to totalitarian...