The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations quit after five months. John Danforth said Dec. 2 that he wants to spend more time with his wife, who is suffering the aftereffects of a fall she took a year and a half ago. Danforth mostly was preoccupied with peace-brokering in Sudan, but he kept a promise made during his Senate confirmation hearings to counter imbalanced anti-Israel resolutions. In October he vetoed an Arab-backed Security Council resolution on an Israeli raid in the Gaza Strip because it made no mention of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel that precipitated the raid.
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