Mrs. Kirkpatrick's effect would not be felt at the UN until the fall, when the

General Assembly would convene, but it was widely anticipated that she would be as forceful as Daniel Patrick Moynihan had been in cutting through the cant. We get a foretaste in this splendid tour of the world, from Chile to Nicaragua, from present-day Israel to Hitler's Germany. JJK on the Carter Administration's human-rights policy: "I suggest that in politics it's terribly important to focus on the consequences of policy for the people who have to live under the policy. If, for example, we look not at the intentions of the Carter Administration in Nicaragua or Iran--where what they intended was democracy and moderation--but at the consequence for the Iranians or the Nicaraguans, which is not moderation and democracy but Khomeini and the Ortega brothers--that is, a worse condition of unfreedom than they had before--then one would think that policy was not a good policy."