The number of displaced persons and refugees the international homeless is at an all time high.

Oh, boy! Look, Mommy! An atomic disintegrator!

Over the past five decades the relationship between Israel and the United Nations has known both high and low points.

The United Nations, whose prestige had reached new heights, was facing increasingly numerous, pressing and complex problems.

International cooperation in addressing global issues such as environment, disarmament, international peace and security and human rights have reached new heights.

And the first time this really gets tested and 1950 is an interesting year because this is the first time (obviously the US had nuclear weapons as of 1945), but in 1950, the Soviet Union tested its first nuclear weapon.

If you just take influenza, you will see peaks at the time where you knew big flu epidemics were killing people around the globe.

Since my last report, I have on various occasions expressed my concern at the increasing violence, which has reached new heights, and urged the parties to resolve their differences through the negotiating process.

At the same time, just when they were enjoying new heights of freedom, some of the peoples formerly subjected to authoritarian rule were carried away in nationalistic exaltation, the consequences of which continue to parade before spectators who are as shocked as they are powerless.