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Boutros-Ghali can't keep ahead of the new world disorder
Despite those challenges, when Javier Perez de Cuellar prepared to leave the office in late 1991, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egypt's Deputy Prime Minister and one of the world's better-known diplomats, lobbied hard to be his successor. Boutros-Ghali, now 70, had ambitious ideas -- foremost among them the...
A year after taking office, Boutros-Ghali will not admit to disappointment, but it is evident that his ambitions to help shape the architecture of a new world order have run into trouble. Under his stewardship, the U.N. has dramatically expanded its peacekeeping mandate -- only to find itself stymied, even...
The pressures on Boutros-Ghali and the U.N. were evident in the scene that unfolded on a freezing New Year's Eve in Sarajevo, his first stop on a tour of peacekeeping trouble spots. When the Secretary-General declared that he was bringing desperate and besieged Bosnians a "message of...
The reception was no friendlier at his next stop, Mogadishu. The Secretary- General was forced to flee to a U.S. Marine compound after U.N. headquarters was surrounded by a raucous mob that hurled rocks and garbage. When Boutros-Ghali traveled on to Addis Ababa for the opening of peace talks...