Yep, that's the way I heard it, too. Seems Ted Turner had to threaten to pay the US's dues in order to get the government to pay up. The US has a way of going about being the arrogant *do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do* world power. Doesn't particularly matter what the issue is, i.e. the World Court, non-proliferation, global warming, etc...

Bobert