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...Moynihan has claimed that "the United Nations is a place where lies are told." But in his charge that the real issue in Angola is the threat of Soviet domination in Southern Africa, Moynihan himself is party to a bold enough lie. Not only is the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola avowedly opposed to Soviet bases on their territory, but massive Soviet involvement there came only in response to prior American intervention to prevent leftist victory...
...Moynihan has proposed that the United States withhold foreign aid, including humanitarian and development assistance, from those third world countries who do not support the American position on the Zionism resolution and Angola. Not only is the use of U.S. foreign aid as a political weapon certain to hurt independent leftist third world regimes but such usage would be irrational even on its own terms, because it could only be used against those countries too weak to protect themselves, whether or not they are the chief opponents of American policy. It may be assumed that wealthy or strategically important Arab...
...course the purpose of the threatened aid cut-offs, like the rest of Moynihan's gestures, has little to do with American foreign policy--these rhetorical proposals will almost certainly never be implemented. The proposals are really designed for domestic consumption, to advance the image of an America standing up for her national pride and democratic heritage, defending her self-image with force if necessary, as in the Mayaguez incident. This policy is identical in substance with that of Ford and Kissinger; Moynihan was merely indiscreet enough to say publicly what the exigencies of detente forbid the administration from expressing...
DANIEL PATRICK Moynihan's courage and candor, displayed during his brief stay at the U.N., represents a small victory not only for the people of this country, but also for the hungry, oppressed third world peoples whose dreams of freedom and prosperity are continually throttled by the dictators who head the regimes of most of their nations...
...interests of both Americans and third world citizens were truly represented, for example, when Moynihan authored a resolution calling for worldwide amnesty for all political prisoners. Unfortunately the third world's benevolent despots, the stability of their own regimes depending on the incarceration of the opposition, killed it. Or when the credentials committee charged that the Chilean delegation represented a military dictatorship, and not the Chilean people, Moynihan added, "We have here a list of 45 military governments and 35 others installed by military coup. Let's look into them all." The committee responded by voting to drop the matter...