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...international economic order." The meaning: massive and painful sacrifices by the rich on behalf of the poor. So one-sided have the Assembly's actions become that the U.S. has denounced them as "a tyranny of the majority"; outspoken U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Daniel P. Moynihan has characterized them as "the politics of resentment and the economics of envy...
...stunning diplomatic victory that came as a sharp defeat for the increasingly isolated and friendless Israelis. In effect, the Security Council virtually recognized the P.L.O. as the government in exile of a potential state equal in international standing to Israel. Over the violent protestations of U.S. Ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan, the Security Council voted 9 to 3 (with three abstentions) to invite representatives of the P.L.O. to participate in a formal council debate on "Israeli aggression" against Lebanon, with the same rights that are granted member nations of the United Nations...
...reaction of Israel was swift, blunt and angry. Jerusalem was particularly annoyed at what it saw as a betrayal by Washington; Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the Israelis felt, should have ordered Moynihan to veto the mandate resolution rather than permit greater international recognition of the P.L.O. After a six-hour emergency session on Monday, Premier Yitzhak Rabin's Cabinet decided to boycott next month's U.N. debate. It also approved a proposal to establish four new settlements on the Golan Heights within the next two weeks-a move that will make any future territorial negotiations with Syria...
There are also more important forms of U.S. involvement. Although U.N. Ambassador Daniel Moynihan last week castigated the Soviets for trying to "colonize" Africa, it is an open secret that the U.S. has been funneling aid to the F.N.L.A.-UNITA forces through Zaïre. In Luanda, the M.P.L.A. showed off a huge cache of captured weapons and ammunition, the latter mostly American-made. Some crates were marked MILITARY AIRLIFT COMMAND, CHARLESTON, S.C. and consigned to Ndjili Airport, Kinshasa. Others bore the legend FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR MUTUAL DEFENSE...
Kissinger has insisted to TIME that he and Moynihan have had "no policy disagreements, only disagreements over the use of adjectives." With another U.N. ambassador, those adjectives might change, but not the fast-crystallizing American attitude toward the U.N. that Moynihan voices: "We will just not be rolled over...