Word: scaly
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...Zayyat: We support the evacuation of all our lands. We insist on it. We got 13 votes for our interpretation last July in the Security Council. It was [America's] idea that "constructive ambiguity," a phrase coined by Mr. Eban and borrowed by Mr. John Scali [U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.], was a good thing. [The U.S. cast a veto against the Arabs at that session.] Our intentions are not to occupy Israeli territory or to drive Israel into the sea. We say this not out of any tender love for Israel but because we understand the political reality...
During seven weeks of debate, U.S. Ambassador John A. Scali maneuvered to keep an anti-Israel resolution from coming to a vote in the U.N. Security Council. Inspired by Egypt, the resolution in effect said that Israel's continued occupation of the territories it had won in the Six-Day War was illegal...
...Scali argued that passage of the resolution could only exacerbate Middle East tensions, since Israel clearly has no intention of giving up the territories without negotiations with the Arab states. Despite Scali's efforts, the majority of the council last week endorsed the resolution-whereupon Scali vetoed it. It was only the fifth time in the U.N.'s 27-year history that the U.S. Government had resorted to this ultimate weapon in the Security Council...
...draft resolution was supported by 13 of the council's 15 members, including Britain and France, who buy the bulk of their oil from Arab states. China considered it too soft, and abstained. Scali rejected it as "highly partisan and unbalanced." He contended that if passed it would have "undermined the one agreed basis on which a settlement in the Middle East could be constructed," namely the 1967 U.N. Resolution 242, which provides for Israel's withdrawal linked to the establishment of "recognized and secure boundaries...
...Scali managed to sidestep a veto. The Security Council voted 11-0, with the U.S. and three other nations abstaining, to adopt a resolution that condemned Israel's raids on Lebanon and also deplored "all recent acts of violence"-a phrase that could be interpreted to include Arab terrorism. The compromise did not please the Arabs. Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed el-Zayyat declared that "if the situation in the Middle East defies any solution today it is because of United States support for Israel...