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...spot at the U.N. in the post-cold war era and regarded Ghali, 69, as too old. To the surprise of Security Council members, his victory came on the first official ballot. The last straw poll had given the edge to the leading black African candidate, Zimbabwean Finance Minister Bernard Chidzero. But on the first tally, 11 members selected Ghali and none of the five permanent members of the Security Council vetoed him. Among the other candidates, including Chidzero and early favorite Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, a veteran U.N. figure who had his eye on the job for 20 years...
...destiny brought Erwin Rommel face to face with the man who would prove to be his nemesis: Bernard Montgomery. By July 1942 the Germans had pushed the British out of Libya. All that stood between the Nazis and Alexandria was the strongpoint at the arid village of El Alamein, 70 miles to the west. A worried Churchill sent Montgomery, an eccentric, bullheaded disciplinarian, to head the Eighth Army. In spite of frantic pleas from London, Monty -- as the Ulsterman asked his soldiers to refer to him -- took his time, rebuilding troop morale and stocking up on ammunition. Churchill wanted...
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Katherine Mihok, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, Nancy McD. Chase, Georgia Harbison, Anne Hopkins, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Sidney Urquhart...
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Katherine Mihok, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, Nancy McD. Chase, Georgia Harbison, Anne Hopkins, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Sidney Urquhart...
...Bernard Glassman, a Zen abbot and head of the Zen Center of New York, discussed the interplay of Zen religion and community service in a speech titled "Zen and the Challenge of Homelessness...