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Another conflict has broken out requiring fast action by the United Nations Security Council. Alas, this one is in the council's own chamber. The row between U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and the U.N.'s center of power turned even more acrimonious when the Secretary-General suggested, in an interview published in the New York Times, that racism might be a factor behind a torrent of criticism from the British press. "Maybe," surmised ) Boutros-Ghali, it was "because I'm a wog." Western diplomats were shocked at the insinuation and the epithet; but many Third World envoys quietly...
Ignoring the CCA-endorsed councillor, Walsh rose from his chair to exit the council chamber. Cyr protested that Walsh was not listening to him and asked the Independent councillor to sit down. Walsh turned to, Cyr,pointed to his empty paper cup and walked to thewater bubbler...
...entrench the National Party in a system of power sharing. The A.N.C. believes that De Klerk revealed his true colors at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa, which became deadlocked in May over his demand that, in effect, whites be given a veto in the proposed two-chamber constituent assembly that will draw up a post-apartheid constitution. When the President insisted on allowing a mere 26% to block any constitution favored by the vast majority, the A.N.C. balked at a system that it called "loser takes...
Smaller companies have been concerned about the costs of the new law and its potential for generating lawsuits. But Nancy Fulco, an attorney with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which supported the bill, argues that economic benefits will outweigh the costs. "The business community is in desperate need of qualified labor, and this opens up a huge untapped resource of workers," she says. The EEOC, which administers the ADA, estimates that the average cost of accommodating a disabled worker will be $260. The act is expected to save the government $220 million a year by helping people with disabilities...
Those folks spend years working and traveling together. On press planes they hear the same stories and retell whatever juicy morsels of gossip they have heard recently. Press hotels, press buses, filing centers, poolside chats among journalists on the road with the president--all become an echo chamber of rumor upon hearsay upon possible story idea. And the reporters are constantly pushing sources for something, anything, that The Post or The Times or CNN does not have...