Jimmy Carter's next scheduled foreign policy foray is to New York City, where he plans this week to explain his Administration's diplomatic aims at the U.N. Carter's visit coincides with a U.N. debut of sorts for his close Georgia political comrade Andrew Young, who presides for the first time over the Security Council this month. Biggest item on the agenda: a politically touchy debate over a resolution by black African nations to impose tough economic and arms-supply sanctions on white-ruled South Africa.
By any measure, U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young is the Administration's most relentless practitioner of "open" diplomacy....