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...result of the letters, dominated the opening session of the 27th United Nations General Assembly last week. Security was so tight at the U.N.'s Manhattan headquarters that delegates from the 132 member nations had to flash passes with photographs to enter the assembly hall. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim introduced a resolution calling for a halt in "terrorism and other forms of violence which endanger or take innocent human lives." Considerably qualified and softened to placate Arab na tions, the resolution was shunted to the General Assembly's legal committee for further study...
...cable to U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, Amin declared that Hitler had been right about the Jews because "the Israelis are not working in the interests of the people of the world, and that is why they burned the Israelis alive with gas in the soil of Germany." He once admired the Israelis. Only a year ago, while visiting Jerusalem, the Moslem Amin had asked the Israeli air force to fly him to Mecca. Since then, however, after receiving a promise of aid from Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, he has expelled all Israelis from Uganda, including military advisers that...
...administrators spend considerable time worrying about the Geneva problem, not the least because Kurt Waldheim, the Secretary-General, has made a point of giving it special attention. But the U.N. has become almost powerless to impose itself upon the budgets, staffs or even programs of the various agencies. One answer, in some minds, is to begin to centralize a good many U.N. functions, perhaps even working toward a common budget, but that would mean taking back what has already been handed out-a political feat anywhere. Should Geneva become too cumbersome, however, U.N. officials are now working on another possible...
...turns out, they are worried about a new threat: the advent of satellite-transmitted television broadcasting. In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim last week, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko called for an international treaty to prohibit such broadcasting from one nation to another-except by mutual consent-as "interference in the internal affairs of other states...
...press conference last week, President Nixon hit back at the accusers, taking a particularly sharp slap at Waldheim, whose charges he described as "hypocritical." Added the President: "I note with interest that the Secretary-General, just like his predecessor, seized upon this enemy-inspired propaganda." Nixon vigorously defended his bombing policy as "restrained," and said: "If it were the policy of the U.S. to bomb the dikes, we would take them out, the significant part, in a week. We don't do so because we are trying to avoid civilian casualties, not cause them." Actually, that judgment in part...