ree Friday, February 7, 1969 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Thr -- ii SYMPOSIUM INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS '69 UNITED NATIONS Voice for Third world the news today by The Associated Press and College Press Service x ,.. FEB. 13 Union Ballroom 10 p.m.-Dawn Admission free LOVE, SEX and RELATIONSHIPS A teach-in conducted by Robert Rimmer, author of "The Harrad Experiment" Feb. 1 6 SEN. WAYNE MORSE Union Ballroom 2 P.M. $1.00' Feb. 19 & 20 GENESIS I' League Ball room An underground film festival 7 P.M. and 9:30 P.M. $1.50 UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (I')- Voting patterns in the General Assembly demonstrate that the the United States no longer enjoys the "mechanical major- ity" it once had in the United Nations. This is one of the significant effects of the power shift that has taken place in the world or- kanization as a result of the surge of new members from Africa and Asia. A detailed analysis of voting on 37 controversial questions in' the recent assembly shows the United States on the losing side on 21-more than half the time. On the same issues, the So- viet United voted with the losers Ionly, 13 times. The main reason 'for the U.S. showing was the fact that the assembly's agenda-at is usual- ly is these days-was heavy with colonial questions and is- sues involving the economic Ihave-nots. It was a case of the Soviet bloc teaming up with the Asian and African countries, and sometimes the Latin Americans. This coalition, of course, is not possible on East-West contro- versies. In the recent assembly the United States still could put to- gether a winning bloc on such issues as the seating of Red Second Class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104. Published daily Tuesday , through Sunday morning University year. Sub- scription rates: $9.00 by carrier,, $10.00 China and Korean reunification. It was even able by intensive lobbying to defeat an Asian- African move to suspend South Africa from the UN Conference on Trade and Development. Without joining the Soviet bloc, the Asian-African bloc cannot muster a two-thirds mIajority but it can exercise a sort of veto by preventing oppo- nents from getting two-thirds. Because of this potential ."veto" and the unwieldy char- acter of a body with 126 mem- bers, the big powers have quiet- ly turned to procedures outside the assembly. These include: -Bilateral negotiations by the United States and the Soviet Union such as those which re- sulted in the partial ban on nu- clear tests, the treaty banriing the spread of nuclear weapons and the outer space treaties. -Greater reliance on the 15- nation Security Council. This represents a reversal of U.S. thinking and to some extent of the Soviet attitude. In 1950 the United States pushed through its Uniting for Peace plan which sought to shift a big part of the UN peace- keeping burden to the assembly. At that time, the council' was virtualy paralyzed by Soviet vetoes and the assembly was strongly pro-Western. It had only 60 members. The council now has returned to something like the place it held in the UN's first years. It held 171 meetings in 1948, for example, but had five in 1959. Last year it had 76, even though the new practices of skipping consecutive interpreta- tion and of concentrating more on preparatory negotations have reduced the number of meet- ings required to reach decisions. One thing that made possible the shift back to the Security Council was a change in the So- viet attitude toward the veto. The Russians now use the veto much more sparingly, often ex- pressing their opposition by ab- staining. - In the past five years, there have been only four Soviet vetoes in 1946-64. In 1955 alone, the Russians cast 18 vetoes. The 1965 expansion of the council from 11 to 15 members guaranteed the Asians and Afri- cans halfethe 10 nonpermanent seats. They hold the balance of power, and can join with any four other members to get the nine votes needed to' approve a resolution and, with any two to block a decision. Because of this situation, the trend in the council has been toward agreed solutions rather than confrontations. Many of the council's major actions in recent months have been taken either by unanimous vote on resolutions worked out in the back rooms or by simply having the council president state the consensus of dele- gates without formal vote. An important instance of this was the resolution on the Mid- dle East that the council adopt- ed unanimously Nov. 22, 1967, after the assembly had failed to .muster the necessary two-thirds majority for either of two rival peace plans. PRESIDENT NIXON will visit five European coun- tries this month he said yesterday. FEB. 22 Rackham Aud. Admission FREE 8:30 P.M. DR. ROLLO MAY PhD. Existential Psychology CONTEMPORARY DISCUSSIONS NtATIONAL GENERAL CORPORATION NOW SKOWING FOA'X " T s.. Box Office Opens 1:15 P.M. 375 No.MAPLE RD.-769-1300 NOTICE!! CONTINUOUS SHOWINGS DAILY " r E ; I- " "DAZZLING! Once yusee it, you'll never again picture 'Romeo&Juliet' quite the way you did before!" -LIFE Speaking to reporters at his second White House news conference Nixon said he will visit heads of government in Brussels, London, Bonn, Rome, and Paris. He will also go to West Berlin, and will visit Pope Paul in the Vatican. He said he had no plans to confer in Paris with North Vietnamese or National Liberation Front representatives to the peace conference. 0 * 0 DELEGATES AT THE THIRD SESSION of the full scale Paris talks made no progress yesterday. Representatives of the National Liberation Front insisted that there will be no progress unless South Vietnam's govern- ment is ousted and the Americans deal directly with the NLF. American Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge rejected the proposed ouster of the Saigon government, and stood firm on the allied contention that military de-escalation and rees- tablishment of the demilitarized zone be considered now. The talks will resume next Thursday. In Saigon yesterday, President Nguyen Van Thieu said South Vietnam's army is "ready to accept more of the respon- sibility and to alleviate the burden for U.S. troops." South Vietnamese and U.S. military commanders are studying plans for a withdrawal of a sizable number of American combat units sometime later this year. GRAND VALLEY STATE COLLEGE in Grand Haven, Mich. is seeking to clear the name of its student news- paper of obscenity charges. The college is going to court to have dismissed an entry of default which arose in a case involving alleged obscenity in the publication, the Lanthorn, last December. At that time, Ottawa County Prosecutor James Bussard had issued an in- junction against the paper, forcing it to cease publication. The college will contest Bussard's action, claiming he had no jurisdiction to issue the injunction. The default entry means that the court awards victory in the case to the pros- ecutor on the grounds that the college did not file a response to the injunction at the time. Meanwhile, a federal court hearing date to determine whether the college was denied freedom of speech and press by the injunction action still has not been set. THE CREW OF THE PUEBLO was not aware of the nature of their mission, the ship's senior quartermaster said yesterday. Charles B. Law also told a Navy courtiof inquiry that the crew had no idea it was on hazardous duty. He defended the actions of commander Lloyd M. Bucher, saying the skipper "did a hell of a job." Law also denied that the Pueblo ever violated the 12-mile international navigational limit claimed by North Korea. FIVE MAJOR DRUG FIRMS have agreed to pay $120 million to settle civil suits charging they rigged the price of the "wonder" drug terracycline. The federal government had charged the drug was pro- duced for as little as 1.6 cents per capsule, but eventually cost consumers 51 cents each. American Cyanimid,.Bristol Meyers, Charles Pfizer and Co., Uphohn Co., and Squibb-Beech-Nut Co. were the firms involved in federal charges they had conspired to control the production and distribution of $1.7 billion of the drug, one of the most effective anti-biotics available. t * _ W.C.FIELDS HURRY!! ENDS HURRY !! SUNDAY Everybody's favorite dirty old man is bock in town. Putting it down once more for a whole, new generation of potential Fields' cultists. And a whole generation of devoted Fields' addicts. Whatever the subject, whatever the treatment, W. C. Fields' humor is more up-to-date than the hippest of contemporary flicks. Catch "My Little Chicadee" with the incomparable Mae West. And "You Can't Cheat An Honest Man." That's all it should take to make W. C. your favorite dirty old man, too. "YOU CAN'T CH EAT AN H ONEST MAN" THUR. and FR I'-700, 9:30 SAT.-4:30, 7:00, 9:30 "MY LITTLE CHICKADEE" with MAE WEST" SAT.-5:40, 8:10 THUR. and FRI.-8:10 R 5.FFHAE 'Til u psi-9 I W. C. THE FATAL THE PHARMACIST FIILDS GLASS OF BEER THE BARBER(SHOP .1 I LAUREL & HARDY TOWED IN A HOLE at ALICE'S RESTAURANT Alice Lloyd Hall Fri., Feb. 7 8 & 10 Soc Is"Al A presents THE ALVIN AlLEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATRE EXPERIMENTAL FILMS Cinema Guild presents an international collection of the newest and finest short experimental films available today. THE NOSE (1963) Alexander Alexejeff' employs his weird pinboard animation to retell Gogol's nightmare about a man who awakens one morning to find his nose missing. THE HAND (1965) Czech puppeter Jiri Trnka thinly disguises an attack on the State's control of the artist in the most hauntingly poignant puppet drama on film, TIMEPIECE (1965) Jim Henson's satire on advertising movies, and sex symbols-to the steady beating of the humannheart. NUMBERS (1966) Czech Pavel Prochazka's animated exploration of the world of numbers and their relations ship to people. SPHERICAL SPACE Stan VanderBeek's lyrical nude and nature study. !f I SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 8:30 in Hill Auditorium . IN COOPERATION WITH THE CREATIVE ARTS FESTIVAL I'r.I -N N LI rl VVL..-1I II I 11 II I 11 A