Volume 38, Number 18 · November 7, 1991
The Back of the Bus
By Murray Kempton
The General Assembly of the United Nations entered the early weeks of its forty-sixth session suffused with the charms that so often accompany the first blushes of revolutionary illusion. Sergei Larov, Soviet representative on the Economic and Financial Committee, could be heard exhorting the parliament of nations to cast off ideology, put the market economy 'at the top of the UN agenda,' and follow the lead of the heirs of the Bolshevik Revolution in advancing toward the sunlight 'of universally accepted market rules and practices, economic democracy, and free enterprise.'
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