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Article: THE UNITED NATIONS IS STILL NEEDED.(FRONT)(Editorial)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- September 30, 1996
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Fifty-one years after it was chartered, the United Nations is beset by troubles and critics.
But in these uncertain, post-Cold War years, it is critical that this international structure remain in place - and its flaws be addressed.
In the United States, critics on the right have been joined by moderates in roundly denouncing the United Nations as an overly bureaucratic hotbed of hostility toward the United States and Israel. At the further fringes of fantasy are those who believe the U.N. fields menacing squadrons of black helicopters to impose one-world government.
Congress' growing distrust of the United Nations could be seen when the House ...