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...president praised Secretary General Kofi Annan for his work...
...time. "Why not go for the billion? Let's go for the big one." After bouncing the idea off his wife, Jane Fonda, over dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria ("She burst into tears" of joy, he says), Turner stunned an audience that included U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan by announcing from the podium that over 10 years he will give $1 billion to fund U.N. programs...
...alone. Jesse Helms would rather keep the $819 million maintenance being promised to the international body, but he'll probably let it go for just two of the attatched list of demands: a U.S. assessment reduction from 25 to 20 percent, and the General Assembly passing Kofi Annan's proposed reform plan...
...tourist-bus explosion seemed to give everyone the collywobbles. There was William Cohen grounding every military training plane in sight (just in case), Congressional committees trying to keep our boys off the Mir (in case any more satellites decided to fly into it) ? and Ted Turner pumping Kofi Annan with a billion-dollar handshake (in case the U.N. should collapse for want of Time-Warner shares). Even the Pentagon got jittery when the Oslo accord tried to prise a pile of landmines from its stiff little fingers: We're the world's policemen, sulked the top brass...
...Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the U.N.: "I appeal to all involved to avoid the use of bombs and violence and really get back to the negotiating table." (Avoid? As in: "I appeal to Mr. Cunanan to avoid murdering people...