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Last week he praised the U.S. show of strength in the gulf. "The best way to use force is to show force in order not to use it," he told TIME. But while Annan respects American power, he is not captive to it. In meetings with President Clinton or Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, he makes his bottom line clear by asserting, "This is very important to me." He told TIME that "if the U.S. had gone ahead, it would have divided not only the U.N. but the international community...a good leader must also be a good follower...
...biggest reform has been the power surge in his staff's morale. "We haven't felt this good in years," says one staff member. His unassuming, workaday style contrasts with that of the more remote, supercilious Boutros-Ghali. "The difference is night and day," says one senior official. Annan eschews the Secretary-General's customary private elevator and often makes the rounds in the offices, talking with U.N. employees, asking about their families. A few years ago, a secretary who had been transferred to New York was so nervous she couldn't summon the courage to introduce herself to Annan...
...Annan brings the same coolness to managing the U.N. bureaucracy that he does to handling diplomatic crises. Once, when Ruggie got upset at Annan for not cracking down on recalcitrant staff members, Annan asked Ruggie why he was panicking. "The only reason I am panicked is because you are not panicked," Ruggie said. Grinning, Annan responded, "Why do I need to panic when I have people like you to panic for me?" That affability often masks a tested steeliness. Officials who embarrassed Annan through their incompetence have found themselves in some of the world's least comfortable locations. An American...
...Annan's privacy, though, is receding fast. He sometimes goes for early morning walks outside the Secretary-General's Manhattan residence, but only accompanied by two U.N. bodyguards and occasionally a third who scouts the road for gawkers. To relax, he listens to jazz, takes walks in the country and indulges in a daily cigar. But his consuming passion is his wife, Nane, a lawyer and accomplished painter and the niece of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who rescued thousands of Jews from the Nazis during World War II. "They've forged a real partnership," says their friend, author Kati Marton...
...Qusay Saddam Hussein. The agency's activities, Impact reports, have always been well known to Tariq Aziz, Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister, who has vehemently denied there is any effort at concealment. Asked by TIME whether he discussed the SSO with Aziz and Saddam, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said, "I did not get into that...