United Nations: The Psychedelic Debate

From the hippy haunts of Manhattan's Greenwich Village, it is a long city mile to United Nations headquarters on the shore of the East River. But last week, as the U.N. General Assembly began its Mideast debate, it was an open question whether the hippies or some of the delegates were farther out. Most of the speeches sounded like part of an ambassadorial bein, a surreal exercise in psychediplomacy.

France's usually impeccable Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville offered an embarrassed echo of his boss, Charles de Gaulle. The real cause of...

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