Let's dive into our next 10 years of UN historical milestones with El the Yellow Elephant. (Have you watched who framed Roger Rabbit for the imagination warm up yet? You really should.) Here we go:
HISTORICAL SYNOPSIS:
In 1961: A Plane Crash in the Congo kills the Secretary General.
In 1962: Foreign Mercenaries fight U.N. peacekeepers all year over there attempt to illegally declare a small white part of the Congo independent from the rest of the nation.
In 1963: The U.N. sets up an arms embargo against the Apartheid government of South Africa.
In 1964: The U.N. Security Council dispatches Peace Keepers to Cyprus.
In 1965: U.N.C.E.F., the UN Children's Fund is awarded the Noble Peace Prize.
In 1966: Namibia (f.k.a South West Africa) starts a guerrilla war against South African control that will last for 22 years all the way until 1988.
In 1967: Israel wins the 6-day war with it's neighbors greatly extending it's territory, even though resolution 242 of the U.N. declares it unlawful to extend territory by war and asks Israel to eventually give back all the land in exchange for peace.
In 1968: The resolution on limiting the spread of Nuclear weapons is upgraded to an international Treaty.
In 1969: The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination comes into force.
In 1970: A great deal of U.N. money is directed toward voluntary reduction of population growth through international support of planned parenthood and other family planning programs as that is deemed essential for promoting human welfare and dignity.
LAYING THE MEMORY RAILROAD TRACKS:
A Yellow Elephant is running around an airport Runway in the first rays of morning light with lots of bananas tied to her back (reminding me she's yellow) as she looks for yellow baby Dumbo. Then She conks her head into a goal post and bends it a little sideways by accidentally slipping on one of the bananas that falls off of her.
In 1961: Goal Post -- I see a Parachute come down on this American football style goal post and rip the Parachute slamming the user fatally into some other part of the goal post.
In 1962: Then as the dawn rises the giant stadium lights up fully--amazingly the football field serves as a plane runaway and a football stadium at the same time. No wonder the plan crashed and ejected some on flying in low. A bunch of chefs march in then, they crack dozens of eggs that they fry up, and they they serve the eggs with Belgium Waffles covered in Black Molasses (like Black Water for Mercenaries). Soldiers who were sleeping on the ground get up and start eating while watching the dazed yellow Elephant and deceased person hanging a parachute.
In 1963: Just then a wild Zebra wearing a kind of bark knights armor on his thighs comes racing though the stadium entrance, chases all the soldiers away and smashes up all flags lined up around the breakfast table and sets them on fire.
In 1964: The Elephant starts rioting then too, taking long cylindrical Cypress tree shrubs bound with rings of golden wire, and with mighty punts she kicks all trees readied for landscaping jobs high up into the air so that they land smack in the middle of the table and burst into a mighty flames along with the burning flags.
In 1965: Then a little boy rids in on a Unicycle balancing a safe full of pay checks on his head and waving an olive branch one hand and a sports trophy in the other. Peace! He calls out to the animals, you've won!
In 1966: Then a double torso, double headed Gorilla with two right arms and no left arms stuffs his faces full of candy to get a rush of energy and then stands bolt upright and yells out, I don't like all this wasting of food! Then he pounds the right sides of his two right chests with his two right arms until he gets NUMB and says with his two mouths "I and I have to think about this." Then he rests his chins on his two right fists and freezes solid into a statue.
In 1967: An Airplane then dives in from the air and drops a living giant six-sided glowing star in the middle of the field to claim the land for the new champion.
In 1968: The Zebra runs away at this point, but the Yellow Elephant looks for some kind of weapon to remove the star with. Finally in a Voting Booth near the exit of the ruined stadium, the Yellow Elephant finds a 3-tipped boomerang (which looks like the 3-tipped Radioactive Warning label). The Yellow Elephant throws the boomerang hard at the star with her trunk, but it bounce off and comes whizzing straight back at her. She dodges it and it smashes into a TRAY OF TEA that they chefs had left for after breakfast behind her.
In 1969: Golf Ball sized hail and acid rain then both suddenly fall briefly on both the Star and the Elephant as a Lunar Eclipse briefly blocks the sun. This gives both the star and the elephant a COMMON WHITE RASH and they decide to make up and be friends. (ICON: A White SPACE SUIT)
In 1970: As the sun comes back out baby Dumbo come flying down from the sky with a giant transparent plastic balloon bubble around his head that he was using to store oxygen at high altitude. He is also wearing big black sunglasses. When the Yellow Mother Elephant see him land, she makes him get out of that disgusting plastic bubble around his head right away, but he refuses to take of his sunglasses insisting that they make him feel cool.
EXTRA SOURCE NOTES for dedicated FACT FINDERS:
61 - Torn Parachute
Plane crash in the Congo killing the Secretary General
18 September 1961Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold dies in an aircraft crash while on mission to Congo. |
62 - Belgium Waffle covered in Molasses
Foreign Mercenaries fought UN peacekeepers in the Congo
Following the reconvening of Parliament in August 1961 under United Nations auspices, the main problem was the attempted secession, led and financed by foreign elements, of the province of Katanga. In September and December 1961, and again in December 1962, the secessionist gendarmes under the command of foreign mercenaries clashed with the United Nations Force. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld lost his life on 17 September 1961 in the crash of his airplane on the way to Ndola (in what is now Zambia) where talks were to be held for the cessation of hostilities.
63 - Zebra (apartheid) with Knights Armor made out of Bark on his body.
7 August 1963Security Council votes voluntary arms embargo against South Africa |
64 - Cyprus, Cypress Tree (In a Soap Press) Peacekeepers
4 March 1964Security Council approves dispatch of peacekeeping force to Cyprus |
The dark green 'exclamation mark' shape of these trees is a highly characteristic signature of Mediterranean town and village landscapes.
65 -- A safe on a Unicycle with a arm holding up and shaking a rattle and holding an olive branch. -- Uni + Safe = Unicef
1965UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
66 - A Two-Headed Gorilla beats both sides of his chests until he becomes NUMB and then he solidifies into a thinker statue.
27 October 1966General Assembly strips South Africa of its mandate to govern South-West Africa (Namibia). |
The Namibian War of Independence, also known as the South African Border War, which lasted from 1966 to 1988, was a guerrilla war, which the nationalist South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) and others, fought against the apartheid government in South Africa.
South Africa had administered what was then still known as South West Africa since it captured the German territory during World War I. In 1966 the United Nations General Assembly revoked South Africa's mandate to govern South-West African territory and declared that it was under direct UN administration. South Africa refused to recognize this resolution and continued to administer the territory de facto.
67 -- The Star of David
A Resolution 242 -- Two sides For Two Sides -- and the Two state solution -- Chapter VI: Pacific Settlement of Disputes
22 November 1967Following the six-day war in 1967, the Security Council, after lengthy negotiations, adopts resolution 242 (1967), as the basis for achieving peace in the Middle East. |
The preamble refers to the "inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war and the need to work for a just and lasting peace in the Middle East in which every State in the area can live in security."
Operative Paragraph One "Affirms that the fulfillment of Charter principles requires the establishment of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East which should include the application of both the following principles:
(i) Withdrawal of Israel armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict;
(ii) Termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for and acknowledgment of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every State in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force."Resolution 1860 (2009) recalled resolution 242 and stressed that the Gaza Strip constitutes an integral part of the territory occupied in 1967 that will be a part of the Palestinian state.
68 - Tri-pointed Boomerang (like Nuclear Sign)
Original Nuclear Non-Proliferation resolution ungraded to a Treaty -- Countries agree they don't want nuclear weapons falling back on them.
12 June 1968General Assembly approves Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and calls for its ratification. |
69 - Race-less Astronaut
In the same year that a person in a space suit steps out onto the moon, the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination comes into force -- you can't see a person's race under a space suit anyway -- so you couldn't racially profile astronauts at least.
4 January 1969The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination comes into force |
70 - Condom
POPULATION POLICIES AND
SECOND DEVELOPMENT DECADE
On 3 April 1970, the Economic and Social
Council took the following action with regard
to population policies and the Second United
Nations Development Decade:
(1) it called upon the Preparatory Committee
for the Second United Nations Development
Decade and the Committee for Development
Planning to give full consideration to the recommendations
of the Population Commission at
its fifteenth (1969) session, with special reference
to the report of the Secretary-General on
the world population situation;
(2) it called on the Preparatory Committee
to give full consideration to including in its
development strategy a statement to the effect
that, as appropriate, national policies aimed at
achieving more desirable rates of population
growth and at the acceptance by parents on
a voluntary basis of smaller families should be
regarded as essential aspects of development
strategy for the eventual achievement of
satisfactory per capita economic growth to
promote human welfare and dignity;
(3) it requested the Secretary-General to
continue to study, in consultation with relevant
agencies, the relationship of population growth
to economic and social development with special
reference to the increase of gross national product
and to improving national per capita income
and standards of living, and to disseminate
widely the major results of such studies.
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