Volume 28, Number 14 · September 24, 1981

The UN Tango

By Murray Kempton

To visit the UN in summer suspension helps wonderfully toward recognition of the general law of development for political institutions conceived in revolutionary idealism, which is that they begin as expressions of conscience and become in due course agencies for the issuance of licenses and the distribution of patronage.



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