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Show Peterson Requests U.N. Information From Adlai Stevenson Rep. M. Blaine Peterson this week sought pertinent answers to the controversial question of U.S. purchase of $100 million in United Nations bonds from Adlai R. Stevenson, the U.S. Representative Represen-tative to the United Nations. In a letter to Ambassador Stevenson, Peterson asked about the future of the U.N. if we do not purchase these bonds and if a Nation loses its Security Council Coun-cil andor General Assembly vote through non-payment of this special assessment. On the point of regular financial finan-cial obligations, Peterson asked: "Under the present prorated assessment arrangement why is it the United States with only one vote in the General Assembly Assem-bly is forced to pay 32 per cent of the U.N.'s regular budget while Russia with at least three votes in the Assembly ( pays less than 15 per cent." The Peterson letter raised other questions on the past payment pay-ment performance of the communist com-munist nations, including the price tag to the U.N. for emergency emer-gency operations. "How much," he said, "does the Communist Block owe the United Nations for special assessments assess-ments for emergency operations in the Middle East and the Congo operations?" Peterson emphasized the widespread wide-spread interest among this constituents con-stituents on this all-important problem and requested facts upon which to base "correct and authoritative replies to their inquiries." in-quiries." A traveling sales man walked into a restaurant ont morning and told the waitress, "Bring me two eggs fried so hard they are edged in black, two slices of burnt toast and a cup of cold coffee. Then sit down and nag me I'm homesick!" |