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HOW TO CHOOSE A SECRETARY GENERAL Sir Brian Urquhart on the Boutros-Ghali Affair BY GERTRUDE SAMUELS United Nations Soon after the 51st General As-sembly convened here Septembei 17for three...

Tomorrow's Leaders on the UN (September 1995)

GUARDED OPTIMISM Tomorrow's Leaders on the UN BY GERTRUDE SAMUELS UNITED NATIONS ON June 26, 1945, representatives of 50 nations gathered in San Francisco to sign the United Nations Charter. Its...

Peace Problems at the UN (November 1993)

AFTER THE COLD WAR Peace Problems at the UN BY GERTRUDE SAMUELS United Nations AS THE THREE-MONTH opening session of the 48th General Assembly approaches its December 21 closing date, the main...

Putting War Crimes on the UN Agenda (March 1993)

NUREMBERG REAFFIRMED Putting War Crimes on the UN Agenda BY GERTRUDE SAMUELS United Nations On February 22, the United Nations' 15-member Security Council made a historic decision. Acting...

Second Chance for the United Nations (September 1992)

AFTER THE COLD WAR Second Chance for the United Nations BY GERTRUDE SAMUELS United Nations Thirteen new United Nations members are taking part in the three-month 47th General Assembly, slated...

Russia Slips into the Soviet Seat (February 1992)

MIXED REACTION AT THE UN Russia Slips into the Soviet Seat BY GERTRUDE SAMUELS United Nations The emergence of the new Commonwealth of Independent States, replacing the old Soviet Union, is...

The Exodus of Soviet Jews-Two Articles Israel Copes with a Wave of Talent (September 1990)

THE EXODUS OF SOVIET JEWS-1 Israel Copes with a Wave of Talent BY GERTRUDE SAMUELS Tel Aviv On May 14, 1948, the reborn state of Israel proclaimed in its Declaration of Independence that...

Fighting Famine in North Africa (April 1990)

5 MILLION IN DANGER Fighting Famine in North Africa BY GERTRUDE SAMUELS United Nations The worst famine since the dreadful scourge of 1984-85, United Nations field experts say, could ravage...

A Talk with Ambassador Walters (September 1988)

AS THE UN STARTS ITS 43RD SESSION A Talk with Ambassador Walters By Gertrude Samuels United Nations General Vernon A. Walters, the United States'Ambassador to the United Nations, is...

The Bottom Line at the UN (September 1986)

MEMBERS' CHOICE The Bottom Line cit the UN bygertrudesamuels United Nations Last spring, while answering questions from students at Atlantic College in Cardiff, Wales, Javier Perez de Cuellar...

Kassebaum vs. Moynihan on the UN (May 1986)

THE 20 PERCENT SOLUTION Kassebaum vs. Moynihan on the UN byigertrude samuels Washington The United Nations is in the throes of a financial crisis that has "profound implications" for its future,...

The UN Yawns at 40 (October 1985)

IN THE FACE OF TERRORISM The UN Yawns at 40 BY GERTRUDE SAMUELS United Nations Presidents and kings, foreign ministers and assorted other dignitaries have been participating since mid-September...

A Talk With Israel's New UN Ambassador (October 1984)

FIGHTING FANATICISM A Talk with Israel's New UN Ambassador BY GERTRUDE SAMUELS Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's first native-born Ambassador to the United Nations, presented his credentials to...

Gromyko's Long Shadow at the UN (October 1983)

A CONSPICUOUS ABSENCE Gromyko's Long Shadow at the UN BY GERTRUDE SAMUELS United Nations As the 38th regular session of the UN General Assembly opened on the traditional third Tuesday of...

The U.N.'s Other Dimension (October 1982)

BEYOND RHETORIC The UN's Other Dimension by gertrude samuels United Nations re are perilously near to a new international anarchy," Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuel-lar warned last month...

Aiding Africa's Refugees (May 1981)

THE POLITICAL OBSTACLE Aiding Africa's Refugees BY GERTRUDE SAMUELS United Nations THE WORLD now clearly I recognizes that one half the entire world refugee population is to be found on the...

A Talk with Assembly President Rudiger von Wechmar (December 1980)

GERMANVS MAN AT THE UN ATalk with Assembly President Rudiger vonWechmar by gertrude samuels United Nations Baron Rudiger von Wechmar was named President of the United Nations General Assembly...

A Talk with Ambassador McHenry (June 1980)

THE VIEW FROM THE UN A Talk with Ambassador IMtcHcnry bygertrudesamuels United Nations Donald F. McHenry was not widely known outside diplomatic circles when President Carter named him United...

Meeting with Major Haddad (March 1980)

THE STRUGGLE IN SOUTHERN LEBANON Meeting with Major Haddad ^gertrudes? Metulla Founded in 1896, this northernmost Israeli settlement is in normal times a favored vacation and spa resort.Today,...

Correspondents' Correspondence Waldheim's Style (December 1979)

oirespondents' orresponaence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS Waldheim's Style United Nations—It was pure coincidence...

West Bank Autonomy and the Settlements (July 1979)

A TALK WITH BEGIN'S INFORMATION ADVISOR \*fest Bank Autonomy and the Settlements byger^desamuels Harry hurwitz, who is 10 Menachem Begin what Gerald Rafshoon is to Jimmy Carter, granted The New...

The UN vs. the Treaty (April 1979)

WORKING FOR PEACE? The UNvs. the TrCclty by gertrude samuels United Nations Considering the human, financial and military cost of the four wars between Israel and Egypt over a brief span of 30...

Journey of the Boat People (February 1979)

UNWELCOME VISITORS Journey of the Boat People BY GERTRUDE SAMUELS United Nations In the past several months a new term for one segment of desperate humanity, uprooted by wars and purges, has...

Correspondents' Correspondence Mystery Cable (January 1979)

Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. Mystery Cable United Nations-The most fascinating...

A Talk with Israel's New UN Ambassador (December 1978)

IN A TIME OF CHANGE ATalkwith Israel's New UN Ambassador Gertrude samuels Yehuda Z. Blum, 47-year-old international lawyer and professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, took up his duties as...

The UN's 'Thin Blue Line' (November 1978)

FIGHTING FOR PEACE The UN's 'Thin Blue Line' by gertrude samuels United Nations As the 33rd General Assembly got under way last September, cease-fires were being broken and violence was mounting...

A Talk with Chaim Herzog (June 1978)

ON THE EVE OF HIS DEPARTURE A Talk with Chaim Herzog by Cham Herzog returned to government service as Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations in September 1975, and will soon complete that...

How to Misuse the UN (March 1978)

PROMOTING THE PALESTINIANS How to Misuse U1NI bygertrudesamuels Unitfu Nations Last Dhckmbfr 2, jusl 12 days after Anwar Sadat's mission of peace to Jerusalem, the General Assembly approved the...

The UN Tries Again (October 1977)

ANOTHER OPENING, A DIFFERENT SHOW? The UN Tries Again BY GERTRUDE SAMUELS United nations Attending the first day of a new session at the United Nations-the closest thing we have to a world...

Correspondents' Correspondence "Seizing" Lebanon (October 1977)

Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS "Seizing" Lebanon United Nations—The morning before the...

Revisiting Israel's 'Good Fence' (March 1977)

AN EXPERIMENT BRANCHES OUT Revisiting Israel's 'Good Fence' by GERTRUDE SAMUELS Nahariya Today I had a glimpse of what the average person in the Middle East has been yearning for. Schoolchildren...

Israel's New 'Experiment in Peace' (September 1976)

ON THE BORDER WITH LEBANON Israel's New 'Experiment in Peace' BY GERTRUDE SAMUELS DOVEV A high security fence?0 miles long, electronically controlled, backed up by heavy rolls of...

Crossing the Allenby Bridge (February 1973)

EXPERIMENT IN 'PEACE' Crossing the Allenby Bridge BY GERTRUDE SAMUELS Jericho On June 9, 1967, a day before the Six-Day War ended, retreating Arab forces blew up the Allenby Bridge, 20 miles...

Financing the Fedayeen (October 1970)

DONATION AND TAXATION Financing the Fedayeen BY GERTRUDE SAMUELS The armed Arab terrorist groups now dramatized in the non-Arab world as revolutionary or resistance movements of the dispossessed,...

Waiting for the Fedayeen (July 1970)

A TEST OF ENDURANCE Waiting for the Fedayeen BY GERTRUDE SAMUELS Kibbutz Neve Ur, Beit Shan Valley The room looks remarkably complete, like a spacious, airy nursery on a ship. It has a...

The Addict: Criminal or Cripple? (March 1970)

HARD-DRUG DILEMMA The Addict: Criminal Of* C!fippjg? BY GERTRUDE SAMUELS In New York, a 17-year-old Barnard College girl, a freshman from Chicago, is found dead in a Bronx apartment where...

Profile of a People (December 1969)

Profile of a People THE ISRAELIS By Ruth Bondy Translated by Israel I. Taslitt Funk & Wagnalls. 320 pp. $5.95. Reviewed by GERTRUDE SAMUELS Staff writer, the New York "Times Magazine' At this...

Israel's New Mood (November 1967)

AFTER THE CEASE-FIRE VIOLATIONS Israel's New Mood By Gertrude Samuels Just after the Six Days War ended m June, I asked David Ben-Gunon, now 81, "What is the chief lesson of the war''" We were...

Failure of the 'Final Solution': (April 1961)

WRITERS and WRITING Failure of the 'Final Solution' The Saving Remnant. By Herbert Agar. Viking Press. 269 pp. $5.00. Reviewed by Gertrude Samuels Staff writer, The New York "Times...

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SAMUELSON, PAUL A.

SANDBERG, NEIL

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