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<text id=91TT2888>
<title>
Dec. 30, 1991: World Notes:United Nations
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Dec. 30, 1991 The Search For Mary
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 31
World Notes
UNITED NATIONS
Freed of An Albatross
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<p> Applause swept through the General Assembly hall as the vote
flashed on the electronic tally board: 111 to 25. By that
sweeping majority, the United Nations revoked the resolution
equating Zionism with racism, eliminating Israel's main reason
for resenting the world body. Said a jubilant Israeli Foreign
Minister David Levy: "It ends a conspiracy to distort the
truth."
</p>
<p> The resolution was devised in 1975 by the U.S.S.R. to win
Arab fealty against the U.S. in the superpower struggle for
dominance in the Middle East. But the end of the cold war and
the eruption of the gulf war dramatically altered U.N. dynamics,
and President Bush began lobbying for repeal. Washington also
hoped that erasing the resolution would encourage Israeli
reasonableness as Middle East peace talks got under way.
</p>
<p> The nay votes were cast mostly by Arab and Muslim states
plus the communist countries of Cuba, North Korea and Vietnam.
An Arab spokesman argued that repeal would only "whet the
appetite of Israeli extremists' creeping annexation," and Saudi
Arabia's U.N. Ambassador, Samir Shihabi, boycotted the session.
Biggest winner: the U.N., freed of an albatross.
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