The World - News from May 11, 1986
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The U.N. General Assembly broke a deadlock and approved a $30-million package of budget cuts to meet an immediate cash crisis. The proposals by Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar were enacted in a “reluctant consensus” following resistance from the large bloc of Third World countries that pay a relatively small share of U.N. assessments. Savings came, among other things, from a decision to hold a special session on Namibia as a supplement to the regular fall assembly meetings instead of separately.
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