As Egyptian and Israeli delegates sat down last week to discuss armistice, in the ballroom of the Hotel des Roses, U.N. headquarters in Rhodes, they were faced with a gigantic mural of the original sin: a naked Adam & Eve, the serpent and the apple. A few minutes later, the U.N. mediator, Bible-minded Ralph Bunche, tossed them another allegory. Urging both sides to avoid recriminations and "picayunish" quarrels, he said: "There are many eyes here, and motes can be readily found in them." He also warned "governments not involved" in the negotiations not...
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