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...nominate Daniel P. Moynihan, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, as Man of the Year...
Unusually subdued, U.S. Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan stood last week at the bar in the delegates' lounge at the United Nations building, sipping red Dubonnet on the rocks and glumly sidestepping questions. A few minutes earlier, he had canceled a press conference at which he had intended to announce that he was resigning because of criticism of his don't-tread-on-me style as ambassador. But in a series of frantic, last-minute telephone calls, high Administration officials had persuaded him to postpone his decision and talk over his grievances this week with President Gerald Ford...
...United States," said Ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan with controlled fury, "rises to declare before the General Assembly of the United Nations and before the world that it does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act." The target of Moynihan's scorn -and a chorus of bitter outrage throughout the Western world last week -was a General Assembly resolution declaring that "Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination...
...Ambassador Moynihan argued in last week's U.N. debate, "Whatever else Zionism may be, it clearly is not a form of racism." The word racism denotes an ideology, such as Nazism or apartheid, which favors discrimination on the grounds of alleged biological differences. Yet few people are as biologically heterogeneous as the Jews...
Former Professor Patrick Moynihan, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, who searched in vain for the government department game in his chauffer-driven black Cadillac limousine, consoled the defeated Harvardians with champagne and smoked salmon later that afternoon. But Harvard's Government department cannot drink away the defeat to which they are so unaccustomed...