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...save ceremony?" asked Shakespeare. Well, for starters, stretch limousines. All week long, shiny automotive chariots plied the broad avenues of Manhattan, bottling up traffic and leaving crowds of normally blaséNew Yorkers gawking. Hidden behind the limos' smoked-glass windows were leaders of 68 nations, convened to celebrate the 40th birthday of the United Nations...
...world's woes. Many stepped straight from the General Assembly rostrum to a small room nearby to help TIME Photographer Eddie Adams memorialize the week in an unusual way. One by one, waving his or her national flag, each struck a pose in salute to the U.N.'s 40th birthday. Herewith a selection from that gallery...
...Reagan approach is even reshaping larger events, as witnessed last week at the United Nations' 40th anniversary. It was as if the world had been rolled back a century. Great leaders arrived in their glistening carriages to party and parley, the two activities being indistinguishable. Who said what about whom over the angel-hair pasta got as much notice as who said what in the chamber. After the Charles and Di outing in Washington, the power people will pick up their Louis Vuittons and head for Geneva and the U.S.-Soviet summit in November. The wits of Reagan and Gorbachev...
...United Nations General Assembly, Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel saluted the U.N.'s 40th anniversary with a speech that experts considered to be one of the most accommodating public statements ever made by an Israeli leader on the subject of the peace process. Recalling the late Anwar Sadat's historic visit to Israel in 1977, Peres pledged to go to Jordan "or any location" to hold direct peace negotiations with King Hussein before the end of 1985. For the first time, Peres also gave partial support to Hussein's long-standing insistence on an international peace conference...
There was thus little reason for the critics of apartheid, South Africa's system of racial separation, to moderate their tones as they continued last week to shower opprobrium on the Botha regime. At the United Nations' 40th anniversary celebration, high officials from at least a dozen nations stood to denounce the Pretoria government and demand measures against it. "If you don't apply sanctions," President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia warned the leaders of developed nations with investments in South Africa, "hundreds of thousands of people will die and the investments will go up in flames...