She 'thinks'
Woman president says UN 'man's only hope'
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPI) — The woman who presides over the 24th session of the United Nations General Assembly sees the world body as "man's only hope. I think."
The words are those of Angie Brooks, the first African woman to serve as UN General Assembly president. She truly feels this way about the UN, even though she told its delegates when she became president that they had a tendency to view world affairs somewhat parochially, as if they were being played out at New York headquarters.
"Perhaps we haven't done the best but I think the United Nations has done a good job," she said in an interview, "and now we must combine our efforts to achieve the goals we set out for."
Miss Brooks was reluctant to talk of many issues before the UN, of whether Red China should be admitted to the UN, and the like. She explained that hers was an overall role as president, not one of expressing personal views.
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The president reflected, as she sat in her spacious office overlooking the East River, on the 1940's when she first came to the United States to study.
On her arrival from Liberia, a country of less than two million persons, she recalled that Baltimore was "an overwhelming metropolis. I thought, 'Where do all these people live?''" Miss Brooks was only 17.
She went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree from Shaw University, Raleigh, N.C., a Master of Science degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin and Doctor of Laws from Howard University. All the while, she supported herself with menial jobs including scrubbing floors.
Back in Liberia, Miss Brooks leads an entirely different life from the sophistication of New York's international community. Life is on a farm some 60 miles from Monravia where she takes care of the children of her laborers when they are ill or in need and bit by bit has become foster mother to them. She adopted three girls in 1962 while in Ruanda.
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