European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 06, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. October 6. 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17 by Elaine Sciolino new York times t o some  Vonc rns. The unite nations is an important institution hint maker. New York City Hie capital of in world to other ii a Ono that should be transported some there across the sea. Some new yorkers locus to the illegally parked cars bearing red. White and Blue diplomatic License plates broken apartment leaser and diplomatic immunity others on the important amount of Revenue the organization generates ii has been called a Magnet Lor terrorists demonstrators spies and deadbeats and Heads of state and millions of tourists. As the United nations celebrates its 40lh anniversary even mayor Edward i. Koch who has often played the angry landlord ready to Send this tenant packing is  up in this season s Good will. New York could t be perceived As the International capital of the world if the . Weren t  said the mayor who has referred to the world organization As a cesspool because of its resolutions against Israel. Some people might say that i m critical at times of the . And i am he said in an interview adding. You always Hurt the one you  finding a Home for the United nations was a contentious Issue from the Start and in the fall of 1945 was the subject of heated debate during Long committee meetings. The russians wanted a permanent site in the United states the europeans wanted Geneva and the United states at first declined to state a preference. When the United states was chosen president Truman told friends he favored Boston or Philadelphia or some location in the  when the . Committee suggested Greenwich or Stamford letters of protest poured in from Connecticut residents Many saying they feared their neighbourhoods would become too  what clinched new York As the permanent site was John d. Rockefeller or s gift of a six Block $8.5 million plot of land in a wasteland of slums and slaughterhouses in the Turtle Bay Section of Manhattan on the East River. Before the Marble and Glass skyscraper was completed in 1952, the United nations was a wandering tenant. Its office moved from a single room at the Waldorf Astoria to Rockefeller Center to the Bronx Campus of Hunter College to the Henry Hudson hotel on Manhattan s West Side to the Sperry Gyroscope factory near Lake Success on Long Island to a converted ice skating rink in Flushing Meadows Queens. United nations veterans Are nostalgic about the warm local reception in those Days. New York was  recalled Oscar Schachter professor of International Law and diplomacy at Columbia University who joined the United nations in 1946 As a senior Legal adviser. We were invited to people s houses and Given free tickets and the press coverage was filled with so much detail and human interest he said. We text  Robert Muller a 37-year member of the . Staff said it was always a big show when diplomats arrived on the piers. It was vory. Very new Lor new York and delegates were kind of like  but Ai the . Grew irom 51 member nations in 1945 to 159 today the relationship Between the Host City and the organization became More Complex and olten strained. Although East Side restaurants Are no longer accused of turning away Black delegates Many landlords refuse to rent to diplomats fearing they might invoke diplomatic immunity to avoid paying rent. When the general Assembly passed a Resolution 10 years ago that equated zionism with racism Many new yorkers began to equate the United nations with anti semitism. The Arab inspired Resolution which passed 73-35 with 32 abstentions stated that zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination. Mayor Abraham d. Beame called the Resolution a sickening act and some City Council members said me City should simply padlock its Liaison office. The Newyork City commission on the United nations. Over the decades there have been Many Casto kick the United nations off american soil. In 1956, Tor example sen. Joseph r. Mccarthy the Wisconsin a file photo i960 bearded cuban Premier Fidel Castro facet president Tito of Yugoslavia As they meet on the floor of the . General Assembly in i960. Seated in front of them Are soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev right and foreign minister Andrei Gromyko. Republican announced he would seek re election to continue the fight to get the United states out of the . And the . Out of the United  and two years ago the american Deputy chief Delegate to the United nations Charles m. Lichenstein. Responding to a soviet Delegate who accused the United states of not being a Good Host country said that if other countries were unhappy and wanted to move the United nations elsewhere we will put no impediment in your Way and we will be at dockside bidding you a Farewell As you set off into the  president Reagan later asserted that the remark had the Hearty approval of most people in America and that i they chose to leave  on the other hand not All of the foreign visitors have cared for new York and Many of them also have suggested moving the Headquarters. When Nikita s. Khrushchev spoke to the general Assembly in 1960. He called new York very inconvenient and promised to guarantee the Best possible conditions in the United nations moved to the soviet Union. Years later the saudis characterized new York As an unlit a i v Hon n Park Avenue a Pera be Voird rejected the saudi foreign minister. Of Junco Saud Al . A1, a tenant. Certainly 111. United nation has add a color to City Lorp the  Leader Fidel  Tro plucked and cooked i  chickens in or. Manhattan hut l room. Khrushchev l Aru de his  Oehr a in the general Assembly Hall. $700.000 was pent on Security for Yassir  s / 3-hour  in 107 i. And on every election Day Lor Yea the United nation. No de extraordinary popularity athe Only  place in town to buy a drink financially the United nations is  positive Lor new York according to the commission on the United nations the 40.000-member diplomatic Community the. Largest in the world and 5,000 United notions employees pump $800 million a year into the cily s Economy. This More than Oll sets the losses because of diplomatic Privi Orups. Last year the City lost $18 million in real estate taxes million in unpaid parking fines and i i 5 million in a reimbursed police Protection said Gillian Martin . Who Heads the commission. The City has never calculated How much it loses in sales lax. Which diplomats and consular officers do not pay. The cultural contribution of the United nations is harder to measure because Many diplomats remain isolated from the City As a whole commission officials and diplomats said thirty percent live in Turtle Bay and another 30 percent live in Queens and some never venture outside their neighbourhoods. Frankly. I m terrified living in new York and i never leave the East  said the wife of one european Delegate. But the children of diplomats Are scattered throughout new York schools said Sorensen. She said their presence lends a special diversity to the  most cultural exchanges and Gills Are arranged not through the diplomatic missions but through consulates which would be in now York City oven if the United nations was not. One exception was the Mission of Brunei which gave $500.000 to the City s meals on wheels program which provides Lood to the Hom bound elderly to celebrate the country s admission to the United nations last year although the United Stales is consistently and overwhelmingly outvoted in the general Assembly United nations supporters say the organization s presence in the United states prompts an understanding and appreciation of american customs and values. Finding a Home for the . Here a View of the general Assembly was a contentious Issue