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In Bosnia almost 10,000 U.N. troops help deliver relief under extremely dangerous conditions. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has requested 7,500 more soldiers to enforce so-called safe havens around six Muslim towns under Serbian siege. But that plan was flawed from the outset: many fear the...
Clinton's confident morning-after quarterbacking masked the fact that the raid was an effort to bolster a seriously flagging U.N. effort. The U.S., when it dominated the Somalia operation, had done little to squelch the warlords permanently, and the U.N.'s subsequent buildup had proceeded slowly. A promised contingent...
To the U.S. military, the job is finished. The hand-off to the U.N. officially began on May 1 when Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali started paying the bills. Last week Turkish General Cevik Bir took command of the 30- nation contingent that will eventually number 28,000. U.S. troops...
UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI could be trying to loosen America's grip on power within the U.N. One new Under Secretary-General was scolded by Boutros-Ghali for choosing an American as his deputy. And when Bush appointee Dick Thornburgh left as U.N. Under Secretary-General of...
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...