The semi-annual occasion on which host becomes interrogatee--this time

specifically on his service as "public delegate" to the 28th General Assembly and on the book that came out of it, United Nations Journal: A Delegate's Odyssey. The questioners are longtime UN-watchers and, in Mr. Scali's case, a participant since 1973 (and the man who had recommended Mr. Buckley's appointment). This winds up being a spirited three-cornered debate among Ms. Frederick, who believes the UN's "primary purpose ... is to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war," Mr. Scali, who believes "that if we had to reinvent the United Nations right now ... we probably couldn't do as good a job as we did in 1945," and Mr. Buckley, who agrees with "the position the American people [according to recent polls] have towards the United Nations ... : I think it is worth while and I think it is doing a bad job."