The palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's bid for full UN. membership was dead on arrival in New York. So why bother even raising the subject? The answer: to drum up internationalsympathy for the plight of the Palestinians. Yet other defeated peoples have suffered far more than they. Think only of how-and at whose expense-the U.N. itself began.Born in the gently foggy city of San Francisco, the U.N. was conceived in the Ukrainian resort of Yalta. Though nestled
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