Word: boutroses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MADELEINE ALBRIGHT'S KICK-IN-THE-COJONES AWARD: Boutros Boutros-Ghali
The formal vote was hours away, but by lunchtime the champagne corks were popping on the 37th floor of the United Nations Secretariat in New York City. The preceding weeks had been filled with intense diplomatic scuffling, terminating in one final big-power temper tantrum. But by 1 o'clock...
The first black African to hold the highest U.N. post was chosen only after a round of diplomatic fisticuffs between two increasingly bitter adversaries, France and the U.S. Bruised by the U.S. veto of Boutros-Ghali, its preferred choice, France endorsed three other candidates ahead of Annan. U.S. Secretary of...
UNITED NATIONS: The UN General Assembly officially approved Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Annan to succeed Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. TIME's Marguerite Michaels says Annan will begin his term on January 1 on significantly better footing with the U.S. than his predecessor: "Five years ago, when Boutros-Ghali was being...
Madeleine Albright has never been the type to sit by her phone knitting, waiting for guys to call, unless the guy is the President and the date is with History. And so she was pleased last Tuesday when the phone rang and it was Clinton on the line. They talked...