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Your U.N. at Work – IV
Wall Street Journal Online ^ | June 7, 2008 | Editor

Posted on 06/07/2008 10:48:24 AM PDT by antonia

The General Assembly of the United Nations voted this week to elect Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann as its new president. Readers with a long memory will recall Father D'Escoto (he's a Catholic priest) as Nicaragua's foreign minister during the Sandinista regime of the 1980s. He's also the winner of the 1985 Lenin Prize. Only at the U.N. does that count as a recommendation.continued

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: 200806; brockmann; generalassembly; leninprize; liberationtheology; nicaragua; sandinista; sandinistas; un; unitednations
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To: antonia

WOW....lobster and foie gras? That is pretty obscene! Thanks for the post.


21 posted on 06/08/2008 6:02:24 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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