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Fat chance. Creation of a force cannot start until the Security Council passes an authorizing resolution, and no drafts are yet circulating. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has discussed with some U.N. members possible troop contributions to a force that might exceed 20,000. But he has had only perfunctory...
Born into a wealthy Coptic Christian family, Boutros-Ghali grew up speaking three languages -- Arabic, French and English. He earned a Ph.D. in international law from the Sorbonne, then went on to a career as a professor of law at Cairo University and as a writer. He was tapped by...
When he decided to run for the Secretary-General's job, those qualifications clearly helped. He was also helped by being African, though black Africans preferred their own candidate. Working against him was his age, an issue he defused by declaring that he would serve only a single five-year...
Boutros-Ghali has his defense ready. "My role is becoming more difficult, not because of the absence of cooperation among the five permanent members of the Security Council but because of the multiplication of problems," he says. "The U.N. never before had to deal with so many big problems at...
But heart is clearly not enough. As currently constituted, the U.N. is ill prepared to deal with mushrooming demands for peacekeeping here and there and everywhere. Such operations are being handled by a small and overworked group at U.N. headquarters: there is no general military staff, no single body mapping...