Friday, November 15,' 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Friday, November 15, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three NATINAL rNIGAJ. ORPOATIO NATIONAL GENERAL CORPORATMN FOX EASTERN THEATRES FOX VILLGE 375 No. MAPLE RD.7691300 LAST, BIG WEEK MON.-THURS.-8:00_ --FR.-6:30-9:15 SAT.-3:45-6:30-9:15 _ SUN.-1 :00-3:45-6:30-9:15 Unlike other classics -West Side Story" grows younger! MIRISCH PICTURES presents PANAVISION TECHNICOLOR- Re-released thru United Artists HARDSHIPS BOTH WAYS " UNI EDITOR'S NOTE: It's the Ii states in the United Nations V are providing many of the big biems. Under the one-state-o vote system in the United Nati a country the size of Pueblo, C wields as much power in the G4 eral Assembly as the Soviet Un what to do about the ministate the United Nations is becomin globai-sized headache. By TOM HOGE UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. -Some members call t] overgrown villages, but United Nations continues tof to its alphabet soup of mi states who wield the samev as the great powers in the C eral Assembly. In U'.N. language, a mic state is any nation with a p ulation under one million, some fall far short even of t level. For example, the Maldive lands, which uses a stampc lectors' society for its New Y address, has 97,000 people, ba ly matching the toal citize of Columbia, S.C. Other vest-pocket memt include Iceland, a land of 1 000 which has been in the U ed Nations since 1946, and G bia, a strip of land in V Africa inhabited by 330,000 p ple. ." .# mirnisttes ittle sembly from its original 51 lion pe phot members to 125. nations, ne- The influx of Lilliputian can- than 37 ons, didates eager to acquire the Thei olo., prestige and protection of U.N. tary of ion, membership has concerned Sec- that itR s in ret cy-General U Thant, who for a g a suggested frrat the tiualifica- the Ge: tions for admission be re-ex- formed1 amined. Thant's suggestion has per cen (AP). won support from the United tion." hem States, France and a number of Granti the other larger nations, small n add "It appears desirable," said ships b cro- Thant, "that a distinction be The r vote made between the rights to in- cent, lev len- dependence and the question of member, full membership in the United $40,000. ros- Nations." for a bi op- He argued that U.N. member- stantial but ship might "impose obligations member that which are too onerous for the with a microstates and also may lead 240,000, Is- to a weakening of the United meansr col- Nations." dues th (ork The nearly two dozen mini- Thed are- powers already in the United ning. T enry Nations pay altogether little mission more than half of 1 per cent urbs ma bers of the U.N. annual budget. By amount 90,- contrast, the United States alone ,.instanc nit- pays more than 30 -per cent of 319, am- each year, and the Soviet Union spends West runs second with an assessment on due peo- of more than 17 per cent. Yet internal all have the same-sized vote in probably born the assembly even though more related has than half of the 125 members On th, as- have -smaller populations than the Ge] New York City. ready i One student of U.N. affairs sions,c figured out that under this make w set-up, the 19 smaller member African states totalling about four mil- addition lion people have the same bal- crisis. lot strength as nearly 1.5 bil- The o wield big power R i 1 a , 1X ople in the 10 largest or a disparity of more 71 to 1. inequity caused Secre- State Dean Rusk to note was theoretically possible "two-thirds majority in neral Assembly to be by nations with only 10 t of the world's popula- ng membership to a nation can work hard- oth ways. minimum dues of .04 per vied against the smallest rs amount to about This may be petty cash g power, but it is a sub- sum to the less affluent 's. And for any nation 'population of less than the minimum levy paying higher per capita an the United States. dues are only the begin- o set up and maintain a in New York or its sub- ay run many times the of the assessment. For e, Malta, an island state 000 people, reportedly about $150,000 a year s and contributions to tional organizations and y another $150,000, on administrative costs. he other side of the coin. neral Assembly hall al- s jampacked during ses- despite alterations to way for the parade of fledglings. A few more ns could cause a minor ne-nation, one-vote sys - -Associated Press U' B graducae honored Dr. Paul B. Cornely, '34 Public Health, was named president- The rising tide of newb states in Asia and Africa swelled membership in the H ILLEL APPENINGS TONIGHT AT 8 P.M.- JOINT HILLEL-BETH ISRAEL SERVICE PROF. PAUL GLASSER, School of Social Work will speak on "Religion and the Family" THE HILLEL CHOIR WILL PARTICIPATE Sunday at 6 p.m.: Deli House I HILLEL FOUNDATION 1429 HILL S T. SUBSCRIBE TO THE MICHIGAN DAILY Shows at English Language Film Festival ALL THE KINGS MEN' and The Case of Mukk Battlehorn 8:00 P.M., SAT., NOV. 16 Still only 75c The Gabriel Richard Center 331 Thompson Ann Arbor Shows at 1 :00-3:45-6:30-9:15 Now for the first time at popular price Direct from Dial 5-6290 SL its reserved-seat engagement., -( 9 2 elect of the American Public Detroit. tem has spawned a host of crit- ics who insist that the African group which now totals 40 na- tions may one day -ontrol the General Assembly. Theoretically, the Africans, particularly with support of their two dozen Asian col- leagues, could by sheer weight of numbers make or break any proposal before the assembly. In actuality, the group, whose members run the political spec- trum, is badly fragmented on nearly everything except colo - nial problems and the related race questions. On such matters, the Africans and Asians close ranks with results that are sometimes startling. A few years ago, Eric Louw, then foreign minister of South Africa asserted in the course of a policy speech before the as- sembly that South African blacks enjoyed a higher stand- ard of living than many of the African members who attacked his government's racial oolicies. The statement so infuriated the Africans that they rammcd through an unprecedented reso- lution reprimanding Louw for making the utterance. i The Africans flexed their muscles again in 1965. They overturned a long-standing two- thirds vote requirement by steamrolling a decision through the assembly that a simple ma - jority was enough to adopt a resolution calling for removal of military bases from nonself- governing territories. This strong demonstration prompted then U.S. Ambassador Arthur j. Faculty, Staff and Grad Students (no dotes) TIME FOR SINGLES DANCE Friday, Nov. 15-8:30 American Legion Health Association yesterday in Goldberg to warn that such "disregard" for the U.N. charter could weaken the very struc- ture of the United Nations. A number of voting alterna- tives have been suggested, but most have built-in shortcom- ings. One formula would base voting on population. This would give a handful of nations, in- cluding India and the Soviet Union, an automatic majority if they held together. Should Red China be seated with its 700 million people Asia could hold full control. If voting was based on who foots the bill, the United States would have almost one-third of' the total vote and the Africans would drop to the bottom of the ladder. Needless to say, most small nations will resist any such suggestion. One of the chief criticisms of the ministates is that they par- ticipate in a limited, way only. The Maldive delegation, for in- stance, showed up for only 30 of the 137 votes in the assembly and its main committees/ in 1966. It also has been noted that Iceland could hardly fulfill its obligation to support U.N. petce actions, since the Icelanders have no army. That has suggested that one way to accommodate the niai- states would be to set up asso- ciate memberships. Such a status might permit a small na- tion to address the assembly, but withhold voting rights. Another suggestion has been joint membership shared by sev- eral small countries. They would share the work of participating in the committees and pze- sumably share a single vote, al- though this would require per- petual harmony. There is a growing move to stem the minitide and action may be taken before long to k raise the barrier. But someuleele- gates feel the influx should go on unhindered on grounds :that the General Assembly is only a debating society, with the real authority resting in the Secur- ity Council which is dominated by the Big Powers. the news today by The Associated Press and College Press Service A LULL IN THE GROUND WAR in Vietnam ended yesterday as fierce fighting broke out near the Cambo- dian border. In Paris, meanwhile, the peace talks remained suspended amid reports that the South Vietnamese government is wor- ried that President Johnson might yield to Hanoi on key points in order to achieve peace. Observers believe the United States has made little pro- gress in attempts to convince Saigon to end its boycott of the Paris talks. CHAOS SPREAD ACROSS ITALY yesterday with a 24-hour strike marked by student demonstrations and disorders. Tens of thousands of high school and university students staged street demonstrations and rallies in an attempt to take over from the unions one of the biggest walkouts to hit Italy since the end of World War II. The success of the strike - only the first in a series of walkouts scheduled for this month - was a strong'indication that the minority government of Premier Giovanni Leone would soon resign. MEXICAN STUDENTS, after four months of strikes and bloody riots, have received some governmental con- cessions. The government yesterday offered to give students a role in restructuring police and limiting their authority - a re- sponse to the two earlier demands of the students. However, a series of student demands which evolved dur- ing the demonstrations still await response from the govern- nM ent. THE UNITED STATES yesterday led the North Atlan- tic Treaty Organization toward a power buildup in order to counter strategic gains made when Russia advanced into Czechoslovakia. In the first three days of meetings of NATO's defense, foreign, and finance ministers, all of the NATO allies except France and Iceland promised increases in their contributions to the common defense in response to a recommendation by U.S. Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford. France has with- drawn from NATO's military system, and Iceland has no armed forces. A NATO nuclear defense committee also accepted a U.S. report proposing the use of "demonstrative" nuclear explos- ions to warn aggressors. The report suggested that the allies fire nuclear weapons in their own territory. ALEXANDER DUBCEK told his Communist party's Central Committee yesterday he would continue those re- forms not ruled out by agreements with the Warsaw Pact countries that invaded Cpechoslovakia last August. Prague's new policy, Dubcek said, would include an open and-sincere policy with respect to non-Communists, and ef- forts to guarantee civil rights and freedoms for the Czechs. PRESIDENT JOHNSON will consult w i t h Richard Nixon on all major foreign policy decisions made before Inauguration Day, the President-elect said yesterday. While he acknowledged that he does not have any veto power over a Johnson administration decision, Nixon said he wants to demonstrate to the world that the United States speaks with one voice, and that any decisions made now will have a good chance of continuing in the new administration. The statement was an apparent attempt to rebuff Saigon leaders 'who are suspected of stalling the Paris peace talks iii anticipation of a more friendly U.S. policy after Jan. 20. U.S. CATHOLIC BISHOPS reached general agree- ment yesterday to back Pope Paul VI's ban on all arti- ficial means of birth control. The National Conference of Catholic Bishops, meeting in Washington, is expected to instruct the nation's 47 million Roman Catholics to form their consciences on birth control in solid accordance with the Vatican ban. 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