In the chamber of the U.N. Security Council last week, there was an unsettling sense of history repeated. The gallery was crowded, and delegates representing most of the world's nations stood in knots on the floor as British Foreign Secretary George Brown began to address the Council. His mission was the product of failure. He had come to ask the U.N. to impose mandatory economic sanctions on Rhodesia, and in the minds of many diplomats present was the ghost of the old League of Nations —which began to fall apart 30 years...
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