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Show Don ftMei M Eveeifl Viewmont, Bountiful and Davis High participated in the Utah High Schools Model United Nations General Assembly As-sembly that convened May 1 on the University of Utah campus. AFTON S. Burningham of Bountiful served on the critique cri-tique committee. The 21st annual an-nual session was sponsored by the University of Utah Division of Continuing Education and the United Nationals Na-tionals Association of Utah. One thousand four hundred students from 53 Utah schools participated. Especially memorable was the formal opening of the General Assembly, Thursday evening, in the U of U Special Events Center. A "MARCH of the Flags" and roll call was accompanied 1 by music presented by the Brighton High School Symphonic Band. As each country's name was announced in the huge darkened circular auditorium, audi-torium, a student in appropriate attire as a citizen of that country bore the nation's na-tion's flag into the spotlight and respectfully stood with it while another student UN Delegate responded to the roll call to report whether or not that delegation was in attendance. atten-dance. IN ADDITION to 136 countries coun-tries represented by their respective nags, mere were six observer states represented represent-ed but having no vote in subsequent sub-sequent committee deliberations. delibera-tions. The highly important Security Council now seats Australia, Austria, Byelorus sia, Cameroon, China, Costa Rica, France, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Mauritania, Peru, USSR, United Kingdom, and the United States. AFTON AGREED with Governor Rampton's statement as he addressed the Opening Assembly of the Model UN in Salt Lake City: "As long as people can see each others faces and hear each others voices, reason and peace can still prevail." Another booster for youth development and rational thought regarding world affairs, af-fairs, Senator Frank E. Moss, was present, applauding the Keynote Speaker, Ambassador Ambas-sador Barbara M. White, Alternate Al-ternate United States Representative to the United Nations for Special Political Affairs and United States Representative on the United Nations Trusteeship Council. |