Word: scali
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time in years, the U.N. has actually become a topic of conversation or argument with Americans. Last week, just as he had done the week before, U.S. Ambassador John Scali warned the delegates about "the mood of the American people" toward the U.N. In Congress that mood is particularly unfriendly...
...speech to the General Assembly that scalded many delegates, Scali voiced Washington's concern over "the growing tendency of this organization to adopt one-sided, unrealistic resolutions that cannot be implemented...
Added to this, there is now a new threat -an arbitrary disregard of U.N. rules, even of its Charter." Though he did not specifically mention his complaints, Scali's concerns were clear...
...this Assembly in particular, can walk one of two paths," Scali said. "The Assembly can seek to represent the views of the numerical majority of the day, or it can try to act as a spokesman of a more general global opinion. To do the first is easy. To do the second is infinitely more difficult. But if we look ahead, it is infinitely more useful. The most meaningful test of whether the Assembly has succeeded in this task is not whether a majority can be mobilized behind any single draft resolution, but whether those states whose cooperation is vital...
While few delegates were in the hall when Scali spoke, Jordan quickly responded, expressing what seemed to be the general view of the Third World...