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...hope that foreign governments would have the U.N. sanctions revoked. According to a September CIA report, the biggest beneficiaries of those vouchers were businesspeople from France, Russia and China, including a former French Interior Minister and members of the Russian parliament. The most serious charge is that Benon Sevan, the U.N. administrator from Cyprus who managed the $64 billion oil-for-food program, illegally received more than 7 million bbl. of oil, although Sevan has denied doing so. Investigators accuse Banque Nationale de Paris, where the U.N. held the money for the oil-for-food program, of failing to monitor...
...than $10 billion from the program, according to the U.S. General Accounting Office. One veteran U.N. reporter has predicted that “it could be the biggest financial crime in the history of humankind.” The scandal implicates, among others, U.N. Oil-for-Food executive director Benon Sevan, French and Russian oil contractors, and possibly even Kojo Annan, Kofi’s son. When all is said and done, the Oil-for-Food disgrace might be where the U.N.’s credibility meets its Waterloo...
...effect of the change on students should benon-existent...
...meeting in Peshawar, Pakistan, suggested a compromise. They proposed an interim council, with representatives from each of the 10 major guerrilla groups, to govern Afghanistan until elections could be held within a year. They instructed Massoud to take charge in Kabul until their arrival. The U.N. envoy to Afghanistan, Benon Sevan, asked all factions to set aside their differences and cooperate, but he was less than optimistic. "What they agree to in the morning," he said, "they reject in the evening as if it were signed in invisible ink." Hekmatyar talked with Massoud for two hours by radio and then...
...complicate matters, the 350th Coalition forDivestiture, composed of the Harvard SouthernAfrican Solidarity Committee and Cambridgeactivist groups, has declared in press conferencesand leaflets that it will demonstrate outsideShultz's convocation address. Spokesmen for thecoalition have said these demonstrations would benon-violent...