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Last week, as the U.N. painfully struggled through another week of nonconfrontation, many delegates were looking forward to the lengthy recess promised by Assembly President Alex Quaison-Sackey of Ghana, during which-hopefully-the payments crisis would be resolved and a new peace-keeping formula devised. Still, amid warnings from within and without that they may be attending the funeral of the U.N., many embarrassed and embittered delegates were calling the organization by a new name: "Procrasti-Nations...
...mean the end of the Assembly's power to take active steps to quell future little hot wars around the globe. Clearly, Moscow would like nothing better; and for just that reason the U.S. was standing firm as the crisis moved toward a showdown this week, when President Quaison-Sackey has indicated that voting must begin...
Just when it seemed that there had to be a vote, Quaison-Sackey came up with his nonvote formula. "If the Assembly will allow me," he announced in his staccato Afro-Oxford accent, "I would request each head of delegation to call on me in my offices behind the podium and I shall then give each one the means of stating anonymously and in writing the preference of his delegation as regards the filling of the four vacancies on the Security Council. I shall inform the Assembly of the results of this consultation and I shall ask the Assembly whether...
...member nations it was better than a formal vote-which would have forced the U.S. to challenge Russia's right to vote and ended the delicate search for a compromise on the financial-arrears question. So the ambassadors obediently lined up outside Quaison-Sackey's office, indicated their preferences on a slip of paper...
Trouble was, the secret nonballot failed to produce a winner-which, under the U.N. charter, must receive two-thirds of the votes. A second "consul tation" was called for, and a third, but although Jordan was unofficially ahead, Mali proved unsinkable. In the end, Quaison-Sackey forged a compromise: the two nations would split the two-year term, with Jordan seated first. The deal was approved "without objection," and Quaison-Sackey dismissed the Assembly until...