US debts reduced the UN's ability to reimburse nations that contributed peacekeepers to UN missions worldwide. Pakistan, Bangladesh, Jordan and other poor countries essentially made up for the absence of US financial support. Since Washington benefits from peacekeepers, which damp down conflicts without US troops, It should not be discouraging nations from sending them.
Washington's natural allies at the UN were concerned that the US wanted influence without meeting its treaty obligations. Some of them withheld support for US proposals. Mr. Helms should also end his hold on an additional $244 million in back dues, whose release he has conditioned on a reduction in US dues for specialized UN agencies such as UNICEF and the UN refugee organization. These agencies need full support. Switch by Mr. Helms would help the in??coming Bush administration, which would reap the benefits of the restoration of America’s full in??fluence at the United Nations.
26. Senator Jessie Helms stopped the US government from paying its dues to the UN because he wants .
[A] other countries to pay as much as the US
[B] Washington to make assessments and changes
[C] the UN's general budget to be trimmed ,
[D] the US to share a smaller part of the burden
27. The new formula has adjusted the assessment and will save the US government at least a year.
[A] $114 million [B] $ 154 million
[C] $ 200 million [D] $ 234 million
28. After the budget reassessment, the gap left by the US will be covered by______________ .
[A] Ted Turner [B] peacekeeping countries
[C] all member nations [D] other wealthy nations
29. The author believes that Richard Holbrook's negotiations at the UN were______________ .
[A]A money-saving success
[B] An eye-catching embarrassment
[C] A waste of US influence
[D] A defense of US interest
30. From the passage, we can infer that_____________ .
[A] The US contribution to the UN has become a huge burden to Washington
[B] The new formula has not solved all problems concerning the US dues
[C] The dispute over the US dues has been deliberately made political
[D] Ted turner's intervention saved the US a diplomatic disaster
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With its cluster of high-rises known as the Frankfurter Manhattan, its big banks and its bustling airport, this is a town with pretensions. Petra Roth, the mayor, sees it as a global city providing hub functions for the Continent,a place that should be as cosmopolitan as New York.
Frankfurt is not just the city of foreign companies, but it is also home to 8000 Muslims, most of them Turks of modest means. Foreigners, including a large contingent from the former Yugoslavia, make up 30 percent of the population; one of the highest ratios for any city in Europe troubled by immigration. But there is no blood on the streets. Quietly flows the Main River be??neath that mock-New World skyline.
As Germany goes these days, so goes Europe. And if Frankfurt, the headquarters for Europe's new Central Bank and so the capital of Europe's nascent shared currency, the euro, is comfortable being a part-Muslim city with 27 mosques, perhaps the so-called New Europe of one money and blurred borders can be a more tolerant place.
Xenophobia is very unusual in Frankfurt,SAID Francesco Renaldo, an Italian banker. Perhaps it's the 300 foreign banks, or the vast airport, or the long American presence. Not until 1994 did 30 000 American troops pack up and go home—the Cold War ended and, so people here say, the city shaped in the soldiers’ open, can-do spirit.
But even here, at the heart of American-influenced Europe, far from the strained psyche of a former East German city like Esau, where rightists this year killed an African immigrant, the ghost of xenophobia is not entirely absent. For Frankfurt—like Germany, like Europe—is strug??gling to define a shifting identity.
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