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Jordan was last month reported to be one of three frontrunners the subcommittee would recommend as possible speakers. Two other public figures under consideration were Daniel P. Moynihan, professor of Government and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and Daniel J. Boorstin '34, Librarian of Congress...
...TIME has learned that Moynihan's personal attorney, Arthur Klebanoff, has been making informal soundings on Moynihan's Senate prospects. Moreover, former Democratic State Chairman Joseph Crangle said last week, "He could get broad support. I'm very high on him." In particular, Moynihan's backing of Israel in the U.N. could be expected to win him many votes from New York City's large Jewish population...
Those close to Moynihan insist that he has not yet decided whether to make the plunge into politics, return to Harvard (he reportedly must make up his mind by next week, or he will lose his tenure) or remain in his U.N. post. If he decides to go for the Senate seat, he faces another sizable, self-imposed precipice. Last October he declared on Face the Nation, "I would consider it dishonorable to leave this post and run for any office, and I would hope it would be understood that if I do, the people, the voters to whom...
...Most notably, Moynihan reported that Somalia's Abdulrahim Farah, an Assistant Secretary General of the U.N., had agreed that U.S. threats of reduced foreign aid were an effective means of influencing African nations to refrain from endorsing the Soviet-backed faction in Angola...
...member of the Council, Syria played the key role in drafting the resolution, which would have required Israel to withdraw from all territories occupied during the 1967 war, and would have recognized the Palestinians' "right to establish an independent state in Palestine." As expected, Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan cast the U.S.'s 13th veto in the Council's 30-year history, because the resolution would have altered the deliberately vague language of Resolution 242 adopted in 1967, which calls on Israel to withdraw from occupied territories rather than from "all" occupied territories. Washington and Jerusalem interpret...