Past the 104 white flagpoles outside the United Nations building last week rolled a fleet of limousines delivering diplomats to an autumn rite as familiar and often as shrill as the first day of school: the opening of the U.N. General Assembly. Settling down to business, the delegates welcomed the U.N.'s four newest members-Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Rwanda, and Burundiwhose admission boosted Assembly membership to 108; Algeria and Uganda will be up for admittance later in the session.
Then the wrangling began.
In his opening speech, U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson expressed the hope...