ALMOST unnoticedexcept perhaps by the attending delegatesthe 27th session of the U.N. General Assembly adjourned last week. After more than 500 meetings and 1,500 hours of debate, the delegates succeeded in passing 153 resolutions. Nine dealt with disarmament, seven with Palestinian refugees, four with decolonization and South African apartheid, and three with bans on nuclear testingall issues on which the U.N. has made little progress in the past.
A majority of the small, poor countries, which now account for 97 of the General Assembly's 132 votes, harp on these themesmainly because the...
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