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.United Nations ,
Do wngrading the United NationsTHe New American GameOf Roulette In Foreign Policy
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PART II
By Curtis T. Perkins
' - v Mayor Koch and the '
Shortsightedness of His Jlk
The United Nations Headquarters was
possible by the generosity of the Rockefellers and ;
the yisions of the late -Presidents Franklin D.
Roosevelt, ' Harry S.', Truman and Dwight'D. t
Eisenhower. ) ,;.7 .
Past New York mayors have nurtured this UN in--stituiion.
Many saw it in cold terms as contributing ;
minions to the economic well being of New York
CUyt Some saw in the UN a source of pride f mak-;
ing New York City the capital of the world arid giv-L
ing fit the most enduring atmosphere of interna-'
tionalismand rounding out itscosmopolitanstatus."
Instead, this Mayor Koch, adopting Mr. Blum's
cheap shot, would defile an inscription which is a -goal
of all mankind and does correctly cite the aims :;
of the UN. I quote this for my readers: Isaiah 2:4,
which is engraved at the UN, says: "They shall beat
their swords into plowshares and their spears intdf
pruning hooks. .Nation shall not lift up sword
against nation, neither shall they learn war any '.
more."' '"' ''
When Mayor Koch saw Kow stupid he was to
show his Zionism, he realized that o withdraw his
plan to alter the inscription or to amend it-with
counter quotei would probably atone for his ig
norance Now running for governor of New York
state, he should be aware that thousands of New
Yorkers of Arab ancestry live in this city and
throughout the state, " . ;
His remarks about (he UN and its democratically
arrived at resolutions were patently intemperate,
fallacious,1 absurd and queasy. New York City can
not afford to: be -inhospitable to the UN because
Israel has no respect for its decisions. New York
needs the UN for economic viability. '
Bui Mayor Koch must not be excused for these
jabs at the UN which are not new. He Sounded off.
against former Ambassador Andrew Young when
he met with the PLO Observer, He villified former
Ambassador Donald McHenry when he failed to ,
veto a resolution in the Security Council which call
ed for 'no more Israeli settlements in Arab territory
and the dismantling of those already established;
Mr. Koch went on to label Ambassador McHenry
ant i-Jewish and anti-Israel along with 1 then
Secretary of -State Cyrus Vance and Harold
Saunders, Assistant Secretary of State for Middle
East Affairs. V."-v .
This was in March of 1980. Mr. Koch had
another New York: official as an ally in Andrew
Stein; -Borough president of Manhattan. Mri Stein
in a piece later in August, 1980, in the New York
Post, advocated slashing the U.S. contribution to
the UN. He based his reasoning on being against the
PLO, Arabs generally and the Third World. Many
blacks throughout . New York City consisting of
politicians, activists and religious figures share very
little good will with Mayor Koch. Some will try to
defeat him in his bid for the governorship.
UN Target of the New York Post .
Mayor Koch seems to be the New York Post's
fair headed boy. They, too, have gone out of their
way to denigrate the United Nations -subscribing
to the nastiness of , Mayor Koch and going to
unusual lengths in excessive distortion and ridicule,
Bruce Rothwell, its editorial page; editor, in his
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In St. Louis, Missouri, Ms.. Niirvdb Yoting and her, son, Tcm'iHT, wait outside as friends ami
Ambassador Kirkpatrick and . her Jewish and
: white policy group at the Mission, including her
compliant Cuban aide, have embarked on a 'no
holds barred strategy" to give real or imagined
critics of the United States' actions the back of the
hand treatment. It doesn't matter whether we are,
right or" wrong, she lectures those little and
underdeveloped nations that America wilt brook on
complaints against us. And God knows, with our
.foreign policy tilted toward South Arica .and
rightest regimes in South America, these non
aligned nations have a right to appeal to our morali-'.
ty and purpose. ; i
'- Dr. Kirkpatrick has a fabulous academic
background plus awards to prove it. She claims to
have been a Hubert Humphrey Democrat. If so,
there's not an obvious trace of this great man's.,
liberalism and compassion left as this lady moves '
about her task at the UN.
During the stalemated campaign for the office
for Secretary-General, I am told by a respected
bjack African ambassador that she invited ten of his
colleagues to lunch which she hosted. She had just ,
cast' her 16th veto in the .Security Council against
Foreign Minister Salim A. Saiim of Tanzania. Her
reason to see the OAU stalwarts behind Minister
.Salim was to dispel rumors that she was anti
African. So, she lectured them on her'snow white
morality in this regard and similarly about her great
leader, President Reagan, sharing her stance that -America
was a friend of Africa.
After 45 minutes of rambling pji the subject by
Mrs- Kirkpatrick, this ebony-hued, bright and ar- m
ticulate African reminded her that he was educated
in the USA and couldn't believe th& nation was
anti-African. She interrupted him in mid-sentence
by stating emphatically, "I've got to go."
"But I'm not finished," continued this respected
Chief African delegate.
"You may stay, but I've got to go," retorted our
Ambassador.
She left. And aghast, ten perplexed African am
bassadors, her equals and her invited guests sat
dumbfounded.
'Ambassador Kirkpatrick is a key player on the
Reagan team. As in his domestic policy, Mr.
Reagan and his gang are determined to play hard
ball with the poor, weak and those of color whether
at home or abroad. Like many other Reaganites
who are leading the U.S. on a doomsday trail in
domestic and foreign policy, she is a member of a
Reagan utilized think tank - American Enterprise
Institute. They know where they are going because
they have planned and schemed for years. Now they
are putting their nefarious strategy into play. The
UN is a target. ;
Elliott Abrams (now Assistant Secretary of State
for Human Rights) in mid-November of 1981,
outlines the U.S. ploy to go after the UN and which
Dr. Kirkpatrick is a willing subscriber. Mr. Abrams
says the UN is too politicized. A Zionist, Mr.
Abrams suggests the Congress and Stockman will,
cut down the U.S. contribution when in fact for
Israel's sake he wants to see this done.
I am a regular reader of Commentary Magazine
from which an article Dr. Kirkpatrick wrote got the
attention of President Ronald Reagan and subse
quently her job ''as Chief Representative of the
United States ah the United Nations. This is the
magazine of the ,'new right" who see communists
under every busHJwho believe n rough rhetoric and
Sf wMHHho .trim to utt.,lJteH wffffi.
his regard as a rabid Zionist. Mr, Rothwell appear ,ImSt, hiK lH,tn )Oimf0(, ,, for alwill ,ivt. years. Aboul iM squatiers have moved into abandoned houses In Kirkpatrick has several former members of the
to not let truth or fair play stand in his way as he
castigates the UN at every opportunity.
The Post columnist, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., goes
even further. In his space February IS, 1982, he
berates the UN in the most vulgar approach of any
writer to date.: ;;"' "'
Here is his poison pen in motion:
"Accompanied by Kenneth Adelman, our jovial
and unusually learned deputy permanent represen
tative, I strolled through the softly lit halls; peeked t
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tempted to quench the prodigious thirsts of the
giants of1 world statecraft during their mid
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"The interior of the UN puts one in mind of the.
urban, campus of some third-rate state university:
there are posters booming the current good causes
(the PLO and SWAPO), seminar rooms sparsely at
tended, and what appear to be over-aged foreign
students loafing in the slightly grim hallways."
Most UN people who read this passel of lurid
'misimpressioris by this self anointed defender of
South Africa and Israeli transgressions, seethed in
anger. .,
He continued: "The UN ought to pack up and
depart. This forum of 'peace-loving nations' has
become a forum of hate and a source of mischief.
The U.S. ought not to be its host. Let the UN move
its headquarters to progressive Moscow, our FBI
would be much relieved. -
"And if. as the UN leadership declared last week,
the General Assembly is such a boon to its host city,
let them move to a needy Third World city: for in
stance, beautiful Bamako, Mali, or Ouagadougou.
Upper -Volta. '.; v
"In such metropolises the world statesmen would
have a lot more time to meditate on American
hellishness, and they would grow more svelte and
upright.".
A few days later, James Brady, who edits the
Post 's Page 6, had this to say in bile about the UN
and wifh unmitigated bias against Moslems
(Arabs). He calls it:
"Cocktail Diplomacy at the UN"
. "In the midst of all this heated debate over the
United Nations and, whether it should remain here
in New York doing its magnificent works comes
word of really vital matters afoot in Turtle Bay. The
UN is undergoing a major redecorating job with a '
new bar being installed and the delegates' lounge,
long reputed to be the best pickup location this side
of Bloomingdiile's home furnishing floors, is get
ting a' facclife. The bill, we're told, will come to.
$6O-$70 million. At one end of the ground floor the
new bar is being hidden behind a sort of partition so
the sensibilities of tectotaling Moslem delegates will
be protected from the sight of Westerners knocking
back their gitwAs part of the revamping the coffee
shop has' been, moved up one flight to the mez
zanine.; And the first delegate, whose identity we
were unable to discover, has already taken a tumble
down the new fanglcd stairs to the bottom."
Asked a UN bartender who knows1 the UN for
over thirty years . when he read this trivia, "Why
docs this Brady have to make up such lies?"
Here Mr,' Brady along with .Ambassador Blum,
Mayor Koch, Mr. 5 Tyrrell, Ambassador Adelman
and scores of other reporters arc orchestrated or
compelled to fall in line to do the UN a disservice.
Israel has been asked by the UN in a democratic
fashion to behave for peace. Most of them deal in
vituperation, invective and emotional nonsense. :
magazine s staff now on hers. Norman Podhertz,
its editor and publisher, has undue influence on her.
This should not be.
No high ranking blacks serve on Dr.
Kirkpatrick's staff. This is totally resented by the
black American community and posevgrave. ques
tions in foreign circles at the UN and around the
world. Way down the totem pole, she has a nice ap
pearing young black adviser whom I met at that in
famous "bar" in the UN Delegate's Lounge. I feel
sorry for this George Moose who proudly and
naively handed me a card with "Assistant
Counselor" as his title. He hues to the Kirkpatrick
line of insulting our enemies and letting Israel do as
she pleases.
I have learned from some African and Asian
diplomats and also many from the Caribbean that
Mr. Moose assumes the role of the leading black at
the U.S. Mission. I say, "God Help Us."
Several other exceptional black Americans have
inscribed their indelible imprints with many Chief
Representatives at the U.S. Mission and to the UN
proper. These among many have been the late Dr.
Channing Tobias, National Council YMCA; Dr.
Zelma George, academic; Judge Edith Sampson,
Attorney Robert L. Brokenburr, Attorney Carmej
Marr, now of the Public Utilities Commission. New
York State and Career diplomat Richard L. Jones.
During the Golan Heights debate and the subse
quent vote in the General Assembly, Ambassador
Kirkpatrick and her team twisted a lot of arms
against the resolution adopted. So, most countries
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