Among the highest rentals is a three-bedroom apartment in the River Tower, a luxury high-rise at 420 East 54th Street where Herbert S. Okun, a deputy chief delegate, lives.
Last month, he named a new chief delegate to the United Nations, Mr. Cherif said, but then forgot about it and named a second man a few days later.
He said that in October 1987 Mr. Bourguiba had appointed a new chief delegate to the United Nations, but had soon forgotten that appointment and named another man to the post.
Among the members is Harold Ickes, a top adviser and chief delegate counter for Mrs. Clinton.
South Korean officials said they were still open to dialogue but had no plan to reach out to the North by making a concession over the chief delegate.
If Israel withdrew from the zone, "the entire area along Israel's border would fill up" with Palestinian and Moslem extremist fighters, said Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's chief delegate, in a speech to the Council.
In 1772 Catherine sent Orlov as her chief delegate to a peace conference to end the Russo-Turkish War that had begun in 1768, but he advocated the liberation of Christian subjects from Turkish rule, as well as the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire, and thereby failed in his mission; peace was not concluded until 1774.
But Seoul's chief delegate Suh Ho sought an assurance from the North that it would not repeat the kind of actions it took in April that led to the halt of the factory project.
"Although we have withdrawn from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, we have no intention of producing nuclear weapons at this stage," North Korea's chief delegate, Kim Ryong Song, said in a keynote speech at the first session of the cabinet-level talks in Seoul.
The United States, and especially the impassioned advocacy of our chief delegate Eleanor Roosevelt, played a crucial role in the adoption of this historic document.
North Korea eventually appointed a party official lower in rank than Mr. Kim as its chief delegate, but the South said it would then send a lower-level official than Mr. Ryoo.
