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Show The Paper Thal Dares To Take A s,and Page 6 The Utah Independent January 1 6, 1 975 THE HOW MUCH LONGER ARE WE GOING TO FINANCE IT AND LET RUSSIA CONTROL IT U N Former U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic and Governor of U.S. Samoa The United Nations may not last another four years." said a US UN Ambassador. For. on the 29th anniversary of the UN. 1974 we find that during nearly three decades the UN has- - been faced with situations which have shaken its foundation, the most serious oc-curri- ng this Yet. vetoed this proposal. following the SC vote, the UN GA illegally passed a resolution to expel South Africa. And this was done, as UK Ambassador Ivor Richard pointed out after the vote, in spite of the fact that South Africa within the last three or four weeks made some significant compromises on Namibia (Southwest Ambassador Richard Africa)." also said he expects a significant change in Rhodesia to please the Russians. It is the combination of votes referred to which not only expelled - South Africa, but also approved an invitation to Yasir Arafat, head of the PLO. to speak in the G A as the Some delegations proposed changes in the UN Charterduring the 25th anLord niversary of the UN. Caradon, w ho then represented the United Kingdom, said. There is of all Arab nothing wrong with the UN representative Charter. It is the delegates who liberation groups. According to interpret it who are at fault." the UN Charter, such a privilege is Sir John Maitland, who reserved only to sovereign states. followed Lord Caradon. stressed Yet the same votes also approved the need for compromise, and Ampermanent observer status in the bassador Ivor Richard, now head UN for the PLO. and limited of the UK UN Delegation, comIsrael's reply on Palestine to one the excessive verhage appearance in the GA. while other plains about and' urges understanding and states were not limited. And a like compromise in a partnership of vote in UNESCO in Paris excluded nations." He has pointed out that Israel from any advantage she was the huge tasks of the UN to entitled to from UNESCO, insafeguard peace and promote cluding financial assistance. economic and social progress in the Perhaps the most serious world can only be accomplished problem of all in the UN was the in a spirit of partnership." adding decision during the 6th Special SesThere must be worldwide sion of the UN in the spring of 1974 coopera t ion ." Secrcta to create a New Charter of Kurt Waldheim, in his UN Day Economic Rights and Duties of a UN 1974. called the message. States", and the affirmative vote in Centre for harmonizing the acthe 1974 UN GA. The guidelines tions of nations in the attainment laid out therein are not entirely But of common objectives." acceptable to the West. According instead of the political situation in to Ambassador C.C. Ferguson. Jr., the UN improving, it has of the US UN Mission, the major worsened. objections are not only the The problems are difficult to recommendation of government handle because the Russians, her of but the wealth, ownership East European neighbors, the creation of international price Arabs and Africans usually vote as cartels and the nationalization of one. This combination is 76 votes. foreign investments, with payment When the Latin Americans. 17 to suit the expropriating country, votes, and the 15 Asian nations w hich could mean, no payment at join, it is simple to put over a all." Also objectionable, according resolution for there are currently to Ambassador Ferguson, is the at138 member states. al titude toward The united vote on South Such objections corporations. Africa resulted in the expulsion of were raised in the UN against this country from the UN. Accorporations after cording to the UN Charter, only Russia's loss of Chile as a comthe UN Security Council can expel. munist base upon the overthrow of In the SC. the US. UK and France Allendc. year. ral multi-nation- multi-nation- al by Phelps Phelps Alter addressing a meeting ol the National Foreign I rade Council at its Convention. November 18. in the Waldorf in New York. Ambassador Ferguson in answer to a question said. What makes the situation dilficult lor us is the Son iet bloc has eonv inced the third w orld that the system of State C on-tris best.... l here are not so many educated people in these countries and those that are. are employed by Ambassador Richard said. It is a strange proposition to suggest that the principal legislative working body of the UN should not be allowed to discuss the judicial working of the UN. even though this responsibility is in the Charter of the UN." Among recent problems of the UN. note needs to be taken that some nations are not respecting the neutrality and immunity of UN peace keeping forces, particularly in the Middle Fast and Cyprus. More UN observers have been killed and wounded there than in all the former peace keeping activities since 1956. The UN forces, should be as police, acting recognized as such by all parties. They are not as fully armed as Their heaviest regular troops. weapons are armored cars with light machine guns to be used only for defense. They also have carbines and pistols, but they have never had tanks, fighter aircraft or bombers as regular armies have. Since July 1974. seven Eastern European neighbors. Nor is the Soviet Union aiding the poorer nations to pay their increased expenditures and their bills for petroleum. They arc saying it is all the fault of the west. The west the government. This makes it should deal w ith it: they are the old to sell our ideas. Then he imperialists and the old exploiters pointed out that another difficulty and they should be the people to the West experiences with the bloc deal with this problem." is that negotiations must be with The IMF and World Bank the group, not with individual had to raise funds to aid the less nations. He said, in considering developed countries to meet their the New Charter of Economic Both IMF and the obligations. Rights and Duties, it is useless to World Bank, originally intending negotiate with each nation: you to help Western countries, now have to negotiate with the entire make no distinction and are aiding group, which takes one stand. communist or socialist countries as Western countries dont have well. Secretaries Kissinger and There are a common position. Simon proposed for the purpose a often differences between the new fund of S25 billion to which Dutch and Cisrman positions, but other Western countries would the Soviet bloc and her Eastern g forces contribute. This was recently the (UN neighbors have a common position on Cyprus) were killed, and of subject of an international meeting on everything, and they influence one Norwegian was in Geneva and was voted down. the Organization of African Unity, them In the opinion of some murdered in his home. Fifty-on- e the Arabs and Asian nations to forces were wounded and of these delegations, major political follow their lead." 48 were termed an accident. In the decisions in the future insofar as inAmbassador Ivor Richard, UN SC on August 5. the Austrian soluble problems are concerned, head of the UK Delegation, spoke urks of will be increasingly taken outside on the subject recently over an representative accused the T UN forces, the UN by those directly ABC broadcast from a different deliberately attacking did not deny this. concerned. I he Security Council, When one is and the Turks angle, as follows: Also nine Canadians Hying from responsible for keeping the peace dealing, for example, with the Damascus to the Golan Heights in and helping to diffuse tense problems of the developing countries it really doesn't help a a clearly marked UN plane, were situations, will continue its sesshot down by Syrian aircraft fire, sions. But unless the currently indeveloping country to be told by the Soviet Union that it is all the and this incident was termed by soluble problems already before Syria an accident and was followed the UN can be worked out. the UN fault of the imperialist, aggressive, cannot survive. colonialist west. Nor does it help by an apology . Additional huge problems when we ascribe the political the added to agenda of the UN this CICERO EDICT problems of the developing world are the international inyear to communist infiltration and fluence. ..The hard problem is how economic and monetary crises, due Reprinted from to rises in cot of imports, into feed the world's population. 1 A ERICA X CHA Ll.ESGF. And how do they pay for their oil cluding the oil crisis: the need for bills? How to develop the third increased food aid in drought world? These things don't depend areas, and the need for increased We are taxed in our bread the agricultural production, upon a Marxist or and our wine, in our incomes and world of and growth the of population situation." analysis political our investments, on our land and the need for international on our property not only for base Another issue is the Soviet on agreements questions relating Unions desire to remove the creatures who do not deserve the International Court of Justice to the sea and its resources. name of men. but for foreign To :eet the food shortage. Dr. from the UN. When UN Amnations, complaisant nations who bassador Yakov Malik of the Raul Prebisch was appointed as will bow to us and accept our Soviet Union made this suggestion. Assistant Secretary General and it largesse and promise us to assist in the keeping of the peace mendicant nations who will destroy us w hen we show a moment of weakness or our treasury is bare, and surely it is becoming bare! We are taxed to maintain legions on their soil, in the name of law and a miracle of miracles. Suppose that EVERY candidate for order and the Pax Romana. a any public office were to be arrested on a criminal charge after he document which will fall into dust has been elected on the basis of the PROMISES he when it pleases our allies and our made. There are not enough jails and prisons in the United States to vassals. We keep them in house them. . . that is if all of the officials at all levels of precarious balance only with our government were convicted of telling lies. gold. Is the hcartblood of our Ihus the law as it reportedly now reads is another nation worth these? Were they prime example of the DICTATORIAL POWERS that, we the people-havbound to us with ties of love, they allowed to he grabbed by the power-hungr- y would not ask our gold. They take g a and horde I of bureaucrats. here are so politicians, our very flesh, and they hate and many that no one has an accurate count as to how many are despise us. And who shall say we living high on the hog thanks to the poor taxpayers. I he same sauce arc worthy of more?.. .When a that the lawmakers want to give to the average American government becomes powerful it is citizen should be strictly enforced with destructive. equal penalty upon extravagant and every government official. If this is nut done then who can it is violent; an usurer which takes live we under a Representative truthfully say bread from innocent mouths and Democracy. We are now living under the thumbs of dictators. I hat is an deprives honorable men of their a tact that all citizens need to obvious fact know. Ihe substance, for votes with which to people need to rise up and demand that fairness be perpetuate itself." administered, even by the politicians and policy makers. I hat's - CICERO. 54 B.C. the only answer the only solution to the large wall of discrimination that separates the elected public otticiaK from g the just plain Mr. and Mr. John (J. Public. Before ideas can prevail, Southwest Virginia Enterprise they must first be made Wvthenlle, Virginia fashionable. -- From Richard Cobden ol dit-fic- ult UN-F1C- peace-keepin- 1 non-Marxi- st ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo THE SAME SAUCE SHOULD BE FED TO THE GANDER THAT IS FED TO THE GOOSE No day fails to pass when somtthing of a shocking nature does not come to our desk. The termites are great in number that are gnawing day and night at freedoms and liberties of the individual American. Also around the clock the insects are destroying the foundation of fairness for the citizens in comparison to the heavy armour of protection that shields the politician and the bureaucrats. One of the latest shockers regards a new law of the federal government. The law now reportedly makes it a criminal offense and carrying a five-yeprison term, for any lie to a federal official. According to a columnist in person to the Parkersburg, West Virginia, Xews. Section 1001 of Title J8 of the U.S. (ode... anoints all federal officials of whatever stripe with a holy oil and that includes FBI agents, welfare directors and any other puppy dog federal functionary feeding at the public trough. Any citizen caught telling an untruth to a federal official is subject to arrest, indictment and trial. The Enterprise admits that it is not right to lie to a federal official, but we object to a law which makes it a crime to do so. It is not a criminal offense tor a federal official to lie to an average citizen. We do not expect great miracles in this the twentieth century'. To expect government olficials. federal or otherwise - elected, appointed or just plain hired to never never tell a falsehood or shade the truth a bit in speaking to us common, ordinary, garden-variet- y private citizens would take ar took him five to six months to raise a substantial sum for this purpose, now purported to be about S228 million, hut. said Ambassador Richard of the UK. the Soviet Union did not contribute one ruble thereto, nor have any of her e self-seekin- ... hard-workin- |