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United Nations: Potent Pygmy

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TIME

In Manhattan last week, the U.N. grew to a total of 113 members with the admission of the newly independent states of Zanzibar and Kenya. Zanzibar consists of two small islands in the Indian Ocean, with a total population of 310,000, or about that of Omaha. Nevertheless, Zanzibar has one vote in the General Assembly, and is thus equal in voting power with such nuclear giants as the Soviet Union and the U.S.

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