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U.N. Finances

NPR's Ann Cooper reports from the United Nations on its growing financial problem. There are three months left in the year and only half the members have paid their dues for 1996. The largest dead-beat is the United States. It owes more than one-point-six billion dollars in overdue bills to the U.N.

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