Word: scaly
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Squabble. Before U.S. Ambassador John Scali had a chance to reply to the Arab charges, a squabble broke out between the Russian and Chinese ambassadors. Yakov Malik insisted that any resolution on the Middle East make reference to the nonuse of force in international relations. Chinese Ambassador Huang Hua denounced the Soviet proposal as "downright fraud," since "along the northern frontier of China it [the Soviet Union] has stationed a million troops to threaten China." Could this, asked Huang, "be called nonuse of force in international relations...
After that, Scali was content to make a brief speech, in which he asked for an evenhanded resolution condemning "violence and terror from whatever source and of whatever kind." He told Arab diplomats privately that he would veto any resolution on Israel that he considered too one-sided...
...first of a series of curbside press conferences, fledgling U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Scali countered that Torrijos was "knocking on an open door," and added that "the world knows that the United States is ready to modernize our treaty arrangements with Panama to the mutual advantage of both countries." In fact, during the nearly two years of the latest round of negotiations, U.S. officials repeatedly agreed that Panama shoudl eventually be granted jurisdiction over the Canal Zone and a much larger share of canal shipping revenues (from $20 million to $25 million annually). The one sticking point...
...apply pressure, Panama drafted a resolution calling on the U.S. to draft "without delay" a new treaty that would guarantee Panama "sovereignty over all its territory." To Scali's dismay, this move won the support of 13 of the 15 delegates (Briiain abstained). Scali, who argued that the soverignty question was a bilateral matter between the U.S. and Panama and therefore beyond the U.N.'s purview, finally raised his right hand and cast the third U.S. veto in its 27 years in the United Nations...
Married. John A. Scali, 54, former newsman and new U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; and Denise St. Germain, 38, who once worked for the CIA in Paris and Rome, and most recently served as an assistant to TIME'S Washington bureau chief; he for the second time, she for the first; in Washington...