One seat stood vacant when President Eisenhower, in the U.N. General Assembly, presented his program for Middle East peace; it stayed empty all through the debate, was still unfilled when the Arabs' own solution for their problems was approved (TIME, Sept. 1 et ante). The seat was the Dominican Republic's, and a Dominican diplomat explained that the absence was a deliberate snub. Reason: Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr. did not get a graduation diploma from the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, and his father, the Dominican dictator, was getting even.
Last week the silliness of it all...
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