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...danger of the heated-up situation on Cyprus was that it could involve the superpowers more directly, something that both Washington and Moscow have so far avoided. Soviet U.N. Delegate Yakov Malik at one point last week brusquely vetoed a U.N. Security Council draft resolution on the crisis. The motion called for beefing up the Cyprus peace-keeping force to 5,000 men and allowing U.N. troops to begin mapping cease-fire lines and laying out buffer zones between Greeks and Turks. Malik hinted that the Soviets are increasingly unhappy with the exclusive Western involvement in solving the Cyprus crisis...
...they might want a say-so on the disposition of the U.N. force. This time also the Soviet Union was threatening to withhold funds later if it disagrees with the operations of the U.N. troops; the Chinese will ante up nothing at all. And Soviet Ambassador to the U.N. Yakov Malik was continuing to try to bring the emergency force under the control of the Security Council, where Russia has a veto, rather than under Secretary General Kurt Waldheim. The U.S. opposes Malik's demand...
...point, the sour relations between burly Soviet Delegate Yakov Malik and the U.S.'s acerbic Ambassador John Scali broke into a nasty public spat. In a shrewd parliamentary maneuver, Malik tried to get certain changes he favored incorporated in a revised text of a report by Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim on the U.N. force. Scali, who thought that he had reached agreement with Malik on the report in a behind-the-scenes huddle, was apoplectic. "Breach of faith!" he shouted, shaking his finger at Malik, as other delegates watched in stunned dismay. "Nonsense!" Malik shouted back. As a result...
...Ambassador to the U.N. John Scali and Soviet Ambassador Yakov Malik, who wore nearly identical blue silk ties, each spoke in support of the resolution. Scali abhorred the "grave risks for the peace of the world" if the fighting continued-a warning that was to be underlined dramatically three days later by the superpower confrontation. Malik stressed that "time will not wait." The resolution passed, 14-0, with China not participating. The Chinese refrained from voting all week to protest "the collusive scheme" of the two superpowers...
...second example are the Defense Regulations of 1945. Israel has two systems of law, ordinary civil law and the Defense Regulations. The latter were called "worse than Nazi laws" by a leading Jewish lawyer in Palestine in 1946. That lawyer, Yakov Shapira, is now Minister of Justice of the State of Israel and administers exactly the same laws. The difference is that the laws are enforced against non-Jews...