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--- lll0il01 llllilBd llali0ll$ Portland State's Model United Nations class car- ried the flags . . . and the diplomacy . . . of several countries into the facsimile arenas of two Security Council meetings at Lewis and Clark College, a,nd the Ceneral Assembly meeting in San Francisco. With the help of faculty advisor John E. Kovac, political science, and first term MUN president Bob Harvey, the class represented Creece at the first Security Council meeting in December. Dele- gates argued such issues as President John Ken- nedy's proposal for a multi-lateral force from the NATO nations to occupy nuclear armed sub- marines; the emergency in Rhodesia; Cyprus, and the United Nations funding problem when the USSR and France would not pay their dues. The Portland Staters represented Japan, the presi- dent nation, at the February council meeting. Led by Dennis Kavanagh, MUN president during win- ter and spring terms, they debated Vietnam, the Rhodesian problem, and the Arab-lsraeli dispute. At the Ceneral Assembly meeting in San Francisco. in April, 14 PSC students carried the views of the Middle East kingdom of Kuwait, of North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and the National Liberation Front, through four days of committee meetings, cau- cuses, and seminars. The Kuwait Mission of the United Nations in New York translated its interest in the MUN group into cash, sending $ZOO to assist in financing the trip to San Francisco. 141