Word: boutroses
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DICK THORNBURGH, THE top-ranking American official in the U.N. Secretariat, wrapped up a year of service with a blast at the "deadwood, featherbedding, fraud and abuse" that permeate the world body. The departing Under Secretary- General for Management pulled no punches, charging that some vital agencies have become "patronage...
U.S. envoy to Somalia Robert B. Oakley's declaration that the U.S. had fulfilled its goals in Somalia and was now ready to leave is a welcome beginning to what we hope will be our post-Cold War foreign policy. The announcement was followed by a promise this Thursday by...
Though officials have not determined who was responsible for last week's World Trade Center explosion, speculation that Balkan terrorists had planted the bomb underscored the potential consequences of getting involved in the region. At the same time, Pentagon critics pointed out that the airdrop puts American prestige on the...
ANYTIME IT SEEMS THAT THE MESS IN BOSNIA CANnot get any more complex, or deadly, it promptly does. Now food is being used as a weapon -- by Serbs and Croatians against Muslims, and by Muslims against themselves. And its use has started an internal feud among U.N. officials. Enraged by...
But Israel's tactic, fashioned in part by Washington, satisfied few outside the Clinton Administration. The deportees held out for full enforcement of Security Council Resolution 799, which demands their immediate and unconditional return. Meeting with American Jewish leaders on Tuesday, Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali suggested that the proposal...