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...have not gone out looking for fights. But we haven't run away from any." So last week said Daniel P. Moynihan, who found himself embroiled in his first major diplomatic brawl since becoming U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations three months ago. Publicly squared off against him initially were U.N. representatives of numerous African states, who were furious at what they regarded as his rude attack on Uganda's President Idi Amin Dada and, by implication, on other black African leaders as well...
...Accident. The Africans were angered by a weekend speech that Moynihan gave at the AFL-CIO convention in San Francisco. There, he sharply denounced the bizarre anti-U.S. address that Amin had delivered to the General Assembly two days earlier, in which Big Daddy had also demanded "the extinction of Israel as a state" (TIME, Oct. 13). Ignoring diplomatic niceties, Moynihan acerbically noted that "it's no accident, I fear, that this 'racist murderer' -as one of our leading newspapers [the New York Times) called him this morning-is head of the Organization of African Unity...
...soon as the General Assembly reconvened last week, black African and Arab spokesmen launched a blistering counterattack. Dahomey's Ambassador Tiamiou Adjibade-currently chairman of the U.N.'s African group-blasted Moynihan for "a deliberately provocative act vis-à-vis President Amin and an unfriendly act toward the O.A.U. If Mr. Moynihan wishes to base his strategy in the U.N. on irreverence, flippancy and irresponsibility, let him know right now that the African group will not allow itself to be intimidated...
Still, just like you don't have to be Jewish to love Levi's rye bread, you don't have to agree with Glazer and Moynihan to find their collection of essays useful. The topics range from ethnic political force to the transmission of cultural heritage, the approaches run from anthropological to straight political analysis, and the regions studied include Uganda, Southeast Asia, Russia, Canada (Canada?) and India...
Much of the book was written at Harvard. In a fascinating study of Chinese in the Carribean, Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology, comes to the conclusion that ethnic allegiance is not as powerful as Glazer and Moynihan make it out to be. Richard Pipes, professor of History, discusses nationality problems in the Soviet Union, and Martin Kilson, professor of Government, presents a case study of black political attitudes and activity during the late '60's in the context of increasing black ethnicity...