Volume 39, Number 5 · March 5, 1992
Bad Debts
By Murray Kempton
Great Britain's John Major presided over the recent opening of the summit meeting of the United Nations Security Council. George Bush took his seat as an ordinary delegate with a presence in theory no larger than the president of Ecuador's and far less imposingly identified than His Majesty Hassan II, King of Morocco. But no degree of camouflage by protocol could obscure Bush's unchallengeable eminence as the de facto UN commander-in-chief to whom the President of Russia can only come as a suitor for a junior partnership.
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