No UN reforms yet, rules House

But informal consultations of the 185-nation General Assembly yesterday failed to resolve differences pitting developing countries against the United States and Europe.

Meanwhile, in a major policy decision with vast implications for the Middle East, the United States has decided to abandon its decades-old policy of active opposition to the creation of an independent, sovereign Palestinian State to live side by side with Israel.

The new policy, disclosed at a Congressional hearing, is not to take any position for or against a Palestinian State, and leave it to be decided between Israelis and Palestinians.