This article was originally published in the Winter 1992-1993 issue of Foreign Policy with the following attribution: "Gerald B. Helman, retired from the Foreign Service,
was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva and deputy to the
under-secretary of state for political affairs. Steven R. Ratner is an international
affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he is on leave from
the State Department's Office of the Legal Adviser. The views are the authors'
own and do not represent those of the U.S. government."
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