Word: boutroses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Her boss loves her for her tart tongue and tough stands: he still keeps the bumper sticker bearing her infamous sneer at Castro for shooting down two American civilian planes last February: THIS IS NOT COJONES; THIS IS COWARDICE. But Albright's bulldog style is not admired nearly as much...
And so it will go on until one contender backs down. In her blunt way, Madeleine Albright, the U.S. representative on the Security Council, makes it clear that it won't be Clinton. "Look," she said after she cast the lone vote against Boutros-Ghali in the 15-member council...
Boutros-Ghali is not quite a David fighting Goliath, as he likes to portray himself. He came into the job in 1992 only after it was obvious that France would reject Africa's first choice because he didn't speak French. Egypt's cultivated Boutros-Ghali, a Francophile in every...
Boutros-Ghali came in with a mandate to reform the bloated and debt-ridden U.N. but seemed to neglect that as he took on the role of foreign secretary to the world. He offended many when he condemned the Security Council for ignoring Somalia while it obsessed about Yugoslavia. Though...
Yet 14 of 15 Security Council members voted for Boutros-Ghali anyway, attempting to avoid irritating Africa and rocking the U.N. boat, as well as protesting Washington's high-handedness in easing him out. Last June, without a word to U.N. friends, a senior State Department official told the New...