LAB WORK If you are among those of us who did some lab work in Biology, you will, no doubt, remember quite well those weeks spent in a detailed study of a formerly alive creature of some sort that edged along for increasingly noisome weeks. The strong stench urged us to get on with the necessary work as fast as possible and well enough to forestall any need to repeat the project. We stepped up our efforts to get the necessary work done as soon a possible so we could get out of there.
Maybe that's a quality we need in today's diplomatic problems. It is more and more incumbent for us to get the entire mess tended too as promptly as possible. I sometimes get the feeling that our "lab" people's haste is, at times, worthy of special attention. We are often puzzled by extended project work which is relaxed and easy-going by workers believe we feel like knowing that the specimen is going to be of less value and less worthy of study and closer examination if we allow it to go without proper protective chemicals or temperature control. A week or so into our college project was enough to drive the Biology Department's aroma-meters wild.
For example,right now, in New York City we co continue to allow the United Nation's "Oil For Food" scandal to hang there as if it were a side of beef stuck on a high hook ...out of sight but beginning to smell stronger and stronger.
Week after week more and more evidence finds its way to the forefront. Additional persons are being identified each week. One resignation occurred this past week and more can be expected en with the specific clause which doesn't allow resignation to absolve anyone of complicity in the million dollar scam against us all.
Diversions are in progress,too. It has been rather suddenly determined they must build next door to the present structure in New York city ,another twenty-five storied building to house the present offices while the old HQ gets a complete renovation. We probably would not have heard anything of it all without the bladed pendulum of he oil scandal hanging above us. The present offices will move into the new building for as long as it takes to complete the extensive and expanded quarters. When completed the offices ll move back in to their present digs and the new building would be used to expand those which will no longer fit the space available. Each day the scandal continues unresolved only adds to the possibility that the United States will withdraw from membership and stop being the payee patsy for most of the groups expense while the till is being tapped by dishonest members.
I, for one, have about lost all respect and patience with the United Nations. It does not do what it was intended to do. It no longer even attempts to do so.
It is not the UN building in New York city which is in dire need of renovation, but the United Nations organization itself.
A.L.M. June 30,2005 [c527wds]
