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Humanitarian workers are increasingly becoming the victims of political violence, in part because the nations in which they work may be so relatively powerless that their people feel threatened by the presence of foreign aid workers. Because of the threat to aid workers as well as the political complexities of foreign aid (of which attacks on foreign aid workers are one symptom) "the bar needs to be very, very high" before humanitarian aid can be justified in terms of the violence that may await aid workers. Justifications that meet this standard include severe human rights violations, extensive loss of life & human suffering, & genocide. D. Knaff

Recent events in the United Nations have called into question American support for the world organization—particularly resolutions of the Twenty-Ninth General Assembly (1974) giving observer status to the Palestine Liberation Organization, resolutions of the Thirtieth Assembly (1975) equating Zionism with racism, and recent actions of the U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Labor Organization. What I plan here, using polling data primarily, is an analysis of the current state of American public opinion about the U.N., and I want to place the current attitude in historical perspective.In the early years of the organization—roughly from the signing of the Charter in 1945 through the Korean armistice in 1953—the American public tended to have great expectations of the United Nations.