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United By BRUCE MUNN United Praas International I United Nations, N.Y. -(UPD - The time has com 'when the United Nations ) must face to a major de , cision can it go on being i the world's policeman? The General Assembly meets In special session I Tuesday to discuss financ ing of the $100 million debt 'into which the 110-nation ' UN has been driven by the . costly peacekeeping activi- ties in the Congo and the Middle East. Secretary Gen eral Thant's authorization to pay for those operations expires ' June 30. By that time, vir tually all of the $130,188,-. : 000 raised by last year's emergency bond issue will have been used up and the organization will again be on the verge of bankruptcy. , No Quarrel of Purpose There is no quarrel with ' the prime stated purpose ', in the UN charter: "To . maintain international . peace and security." ' The difliculty lies in how ' International peace and se curity are maintained, for the political overtones tend to become paramount as they did in the Congo, and who will pay for it. The problem is a funda mentally human as a town Acme Hardware FOR ; OUTSTANDING VALUES Whips ttroagh tti toughest grass siakes rota lawn care a breeze. Powerful, E-ZEt start 4-cycle en gine. v : Mad mi guarantees' i Sunbeam . . . makers at Famons Snnbean Appliances. Locking For New Decorating Ideas? We have hundreds oi just ' right decorator colors in a choice of the most dur blc paint finishes for every decorating need. Inside or outside FAINT WITH .. FREE PARKING MCUlUrl IN HOMIWAII Tenth end Central Phone 772-5201 No. G92 ( , SPECIAL VALUE 'S ONLY THROTTLE CONTROLS:! I CHOKE, START, FAST, I I SLOW, STOP I 5 CUTTING HEIGHTS ; FROM W TO 3 1 i VJ"e)JK u Saw jS 3 Nations Now meeting discussion of new curbs for the village street. No taxpayer wants to pay more than he has to and each wants to see his own interests taken care of. The UN is carrying on its books debits against its members of $200,322,587.03 (according to its latest fi nancial statement dated March 31). Of this, $72, 639,087.14 is unpaid assess ments for the Congo opera tion. An additional $27,388, 495.97 is due for the UN emergency force (UNEF) on duty between Israel and Egypt since 1956, making a total arrearage due of $100,027,583.11 for the two peace - keeping operations. The other $100,295,003.92 is due against assessments for the regular budget. Paid on Assessment . Only 32 of the 110 UN members are paid up on their Congo assessments and only 46 on their con tributions for UNEF. Russia and the Commu nist bloc are the chief of fenders. The Soviet defense for non - payment is that only the Security Council, in which Moscow is one of the five veto powers, can appropriate money for peace - keeping operations and, anyway, the "aggres sor" nations should be nit with the full bill for such UN activities. What it amounts to, es pecially in the case of the Congo, is that the opera tion did not work out to the Russians' interest or the interest of several oth er non - paying countries and it seemed bad busi ness to them to have to pay for such activities. Russia, France, Belgium and a number of other countries refusing to pay held that they were liable only for their assessments under the regular budget and that such costs as those for the Congo could not be made their legal respon sibility. Into Regular Budget But the assembly last year voted to put the costs of peace - keeping opera tions into the regular budg et. Then it applied to the World Court, which hand ed down an advisory opin ion that such costs are, in deed, a rightful part of the regular budget and a legal obligation of all members. There will be much talk In the months to come about Article 19 of the UN Char ter. It provides that any member behind in its pay. ments "shall have no vote in the General Assembly if the amount of its arrears equals or exceeds the amount of contributions due from it for the preceding two years. At least 10 countries stand in danger of losing their votes under Article 19 at the upcoming special session. Hitherto, there has been no challenge case. De linquent countries - Bolivia was the classic case of the past - absented themselves at voting time until they could catch up on their ar rcarages. The United States was re ported ready to enforce the rule against several coun tries, notably Hungary and Cuba, even at the risk of penalizing some Western Hemisphere nations such as Bolivia and Haiti. Medford Man Wins State Essay Contest Stearns Cushing, labor mar ket analyst for the Medford office of the Oregon state em ployment service, was name. first place winner in the an. nual state essay contest con. ducted by International Asso ciation of Personnel Employ ment Security. The announcement w a made at the annual institute in Eugene recently. The subject of the statewide contest was, "How Employ ment Security Benefits the Community." Second place went to Rob ert Harvic, Roscburg, and third place to Jim Dyer, Klam ath Falls. The three top essays were entered in the international essay contest. The winner will be announced at the IAPES 50th anniversary convention in Chicago in July. Cushing is the labor mar ket analyst for the southern Oregon area. Stanley Bonkowski, former ly of Medford, and now man- agcr of the Lakeview employ ment olfice was elected direc tor for the southern Oregon district at the recent meeting. He succeeds Don Stiffler, Grants Pass. Subscribers delivery of the Mill Tribune In Mrdfora. pnonc i.a ..n 4IK BrtrfM it. ol Victory 2-38H8 before 6:45 pm. tuny im i oui,u.... If TefuUr delivery arrive. gnonij purr n C" - notify office, thus eliminating Some UN legal authori ties hold that no discus sion or ballot Is required to take away a delinquent's vote. They argue that the action is automatic. How ever, the charter provides that the assembly may per mit a delinquent country to vote "if it is satisfied that the failure to pay is be yond the control of the member." In such instance, a vote would be required. Little hope is held that the special session ex pected to last three weeks to a month will decide on a permanent clan for financing future peacekeep ing operations. The United States and most of the West ern powers will be satis fied with meeting the costs for the next six months and leaving the future for next fall's regular assembly ses sion to wrestle with. 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On the basis of per capita in come, it is argued, the Unit ed States, instead of pay ing the 32.02 per cent it , now is assessed, ( should rightfully pay closer to 45 per cent of ail UN costs. The United States was veering toward a version of a proposal put befoT the committee of 21 known us the British "three bite plan." Under the British plan, an initial sum of perhaps a The most useful piece , of furniture, for the "' home! Little space BIG comfort! , OREGON of Being World's Policeman $10 million for each peace keeping , operation would be levied against all mem bers on the regular scale of assessments - which ranges from the U.S. top of 32.02 . per cent to .04 per cent for the least wealthy members.' The balance also would be fully assessed, but with lower rates on the less de veloped countries. These countries now are given an 80 per cent reduction on their assessments, and the general thought was that such a reduction In the fu MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY THE R. A. 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