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...Third World bloc. He wrenched procedural issues in a way that prevented South Africa from taking its seat and limited Israel's participation in the Palestinian debate. Bouteflika's blatant disregard for the tradition of presidential impartiality was one cause of former U.S. Ambassador John Scali's warning last year that a "tyranny of the majority" of underdeveloped, often tiny nations in the U.N. threatened to undermine U.S. support of the organization...
WEDNESDAY. Efforts to use diplomacy to increase the pressure on Cambodia to release the crew were still going on. At lunchtime, Ambassador John Scali handed United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim a letter asking him "to take any steps within your ability." Waldheim offered Phnom-Penh his "good offices," but received no answer...
Nixon named Scali U.N. envoy in December 1972, after Scali had finished two years as special consultant to the President for foreign affairs. Nixon admired Scali's grasp of world politics, and during his stay at the White House, Scali accompanied the President on his trips to the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. In the process, Scali also earned the dislike of Henry Kissinger. While in Washington, Scali bristled at the king-size Kissinger ego, and of late at the U.N. relations between the two men have grown increasingly strained. Scali was especially annoyed...
...Scali has wanted to leave for some time, and Kissinger boosted Moynihan, an old Harvard friend and an ally in the Nixon White House, as his replacement. There is speculation in Washington that Ford may want to name Scali to another high diplomatic post, but for his part Scali is considering several job offers in the private sector...
Tough Speech. Scali's most publicized moment during his stint at the U.N. came last December, when he delivered a tough, bluntly worded General Assembly speech decrying Third World dominance of the U.N., which he charged signaled a new "tyranny of the majority." Alluding to such Assembly votes as the curtailment of Israeli participation in the Middle East debate and the suspension of South Africa, he warned that "self-centered actions" were endangering the U.N.'s future. "Americans are questioning their belief in the United Nations," he said, and "are deeply disturbed...