SWITCHING SIDES: REPORTER JOINS U.S. MISSION

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• Publication Date: October 3, 1985
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" IfIE APPEARED . NEW YORK TIME
3 October 198
U.N. Notes
Switching Sides: Reporter Joins U. S. Mission
By JAMES BROOKE
Special to The New Yost Times
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Oct. 2-
After 25 years as the CBS News corre-
spondent at the United Nations, Rich-
ard C. Hottelet is leaving the network
to take a job across the street with the
United States Mission.
Mr. Hottelet, who joined CBS News
in 1944 as a member of the team led
by Edward R. Murruw, has taken
early retirement and at the end of the
month will begin his duties as public
affairs counselor.
Although a registered Democrat,
Mr. Hottelet, 68 years old, said the ap-
proach taken by the diplomatic team
under Lieut. Gen. Vernon A. Walters,
the chief American, delegate, was
"responsible, pragmatic and sensi-
ble." At the United Nations, he says,
the United States faces "not only out-
rage and frustration but also oppor-
tunity."
Reflecting on his years at the
United Nations, where he has become
something of a walking history book,
Mr. Hottelet said: "The United Na-
tions Is a human institution. If you
don't expect it to solve all the prob-
lems of the world, you're not going to have to listen to all the speeches
slash your wrists when you realize that after the first 75, the omattiic
that it's not." language tends to lose its sparkle.
One night, Nicolas Ardito Barletta One who brought back some of the
was the host, as President of Pana- shine was Reis Malile, Foreign time ter of Albania, who used ed his s t time to
ma, of a glittering diplomatic recep- blast the United Nations, the United
tion at the Helmsley Palace Hotel. States and the Soviet Union.
The next night, he was back in "During these four decades, the
Panama City drafting his resignation U.N. flag has been used to cover up
speech. acts of imperialist intervention and
Mr. Barletta may have gone out in aggression as in Korea, the Congo,
style, but his political demise re- and the Middle East," Mr. Malile
minded global leaders of the perils of said as he warmed io his subject.
international tourism. "The U.S.A. and the Soviet Union
Few leaders from coup-prone na- may sit down and talk together, but
tions of Africa are scheduled to speak the reality as of now has shown that
at the United Nations this year. the most they can agree on is to make
Speculation in the corridors has it deals at the expense of other peoples.
that few of the world's shakier lead- "For several decades now, the two
ers, including Gen. Augusto Pinochet superpowers, the U.S.A. and the
of Chile, are interested in gambling Soviet
their seats of power for a week in New
soare metimes tinning of
Y
k
or
. There has also been specula-
tion that such worries may have fig-
ured in the announcement, made here
Tuesday, that Col. Muammar el-
Quaddafi of Libya had canceled plans
to visit the United Nations next
month.
?
Day after day, television monitors
throughout the United Nations show
speeches from the 40th session of the
General Assembly - about 45
minutes to a speech, 10 speakers to a
day. Diplomats and journalists who
up, at other times cooling It off,"
Albanian envoy continued. "Now they
are raising a sort of Damocles sword
in space which will hand over our
planet."
Eyebrows were raised Monday
when luncheon guests of Leopold
Gratz, Foreign Minister of Austria.
were served a 1982 French cr iL
Macon Lugny, to wash down their
roast veal A la tarragon and oeufs * la
neige.
Sensitive about the his country's
wine-doctoring scandal, Mr. Gratz
told the guests, a group of reporters,
If you drink two liters of Austrian
wine a day for 200 years you are sure
to die of it."
At a reception later that day at tine
United Nations, two Austrian wink,
Tattendorfer St. Laurent Ausstlch, A
red, and Kremser Schmidt, a whit*A
appeared on the tables. met
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