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For months, the mythical Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse -- Conquest, Slaughter, Famine and Death -- have run wild in Somalia. After 19 months of war and a long drought, 1.5 million of the country's estimated 6 million people face imminent starvation. Only an urgent plea by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros...
But since the U.N. neither can nor should butt into every secessionist dispute around the world, some standard is needed to judge when intervention is justified. One often heard suggestion is that intervention is defensible whenever a civil war threatens to send floods of refugees across international frontiers. Established powers...
Gus Speth, president of Washington's World Resources Institute, believes the summit could still produce his dream of a global bargain between rich and poor nations, but only if the meeting's treaties are developed during the next three years to spell out obligations, goals and monitoring. The price of...
By May 13, the fighting in Sarajevo had become intolerable. Accordingly, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali announced that the bulk of U.N. forces in Sarajevo were pulling out. The U.N., he said, simply cannot operate in a place where there is no political will for peace. "Peacekeeping must be...
Serbian officials pounced on a U.N. report on the situation in Bosnia to back their demand that sanctions be lifted immediately. The report, issued by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, pointed out that Croats were also grabbing Bosnian territory. It suggested that Serb forces in Bosnia and their commander, General...