Word: ued
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Europeans had a more compelling case. They rightly claimed the U.S. should not dictate to its allies in such cases and pointed out the hypocrisy of maintaining American grain sales to the U. S. S. R. They also argued they had negotiated a sound business deal, which seems apparent...
This week, the U. N. installed a photographic display of massacred Palestinians in the visitors' lobby, near where you stand to meet up with your official U. N. tour. It is an awful, one-sided display, which was cleared in advance with the Palestinian Liberation Organization's representative to the U. N.--and U. N. officials admitted that they would have delayed the exhibit had he not found it up to snuff...
...display is obviously just another example of the U. N. calling Israel to task for the sort of things it doesn't bother to--or cannot muster a majority vote for--calling other nations to task for, Ironically, the display goes up in the same week that the U.S. embassy estimated the death toll this past year alone in El Salvador to be 5,639, more than half of which were civilians. There seems, alas, no El Salvador photo display in the offing. Nor were there photo displays of the athletes slaughtered at the Munich Olympics...
...current bias of the U. N. has shown itself time and again. It has not been a force for world good in many years now, and has greatly soiled its legitimacy by making anti-Zionist attacks one of the only agenda items on which it can approach consensus. But that is hardly the issue anymore...
...issue is simply that if the U. N. is going to hypocritically defy the good instincts upon which it was founded, it should at least keep things quietly confined to the plushly upholstered assembly rooms upstairs, the ones that you have to be over 14 to enter. For the sake of the noble ideals of international cooperation and world peace on which they were founded, let them at least spare the fifth graders and keep the political one-sidedness out of the visitors' lobby...