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That rejoinder was not only frivolous but shallow. After the early '60s, one reason why the U.N. was unable to intervene in African and Asian bloodbaths was the sanctity-of-boundaries standard that Third World members held dear. Idi Amin's Uganda, Pol Pot's Cambodia and other killing fields piled up bones unchecked in large part because the carnage was performed within sovereign borders. Many developing countries were disturbed by these atrocities, but they remained loath to compromise the U.N. Charter's criterion for use of outside force; the days of "intervention" by Western colonial empires were too recent...
Charles dithered his way through a lengthy list of girls, some suitable, some not. But Camilla Parker-Bowles, one that got away early and married another, has remained his very dear friend -- and Diana's nemesis. In Morton's book she is depicted as a schemer, vetting the prince's girls, not for their potential as royals but "to see how much a threat they posed to her own relationship." When the naive Diana said she didn't enjoy hunting, Camilla, a horsewoman, brightened at once. Then there was the discovery of Fred and Gladys -- the pet code names...
...Dear IBM: %$ % %$!!*&!! Perot's relationship with IBM continued to be turbulent long after he left the company. In the late 1960s Aubrey Wilson served for nine stormy months as the EDS account manager for IBM, whose business with Perot was expanding. Wilson, 67, recalls being confronted with a stream of complaints from Perot. "He had his whole organization geared to route even the slightest provocation to his personal attention so that he could file a formal complaint," says Wilson, who retired from...
...Dear President Rudenstine, when you are eatingdinner tonight, don't forget those of us who canonly afford tuna for lunch," wrote another worker...
...first uncertain about attending the conference and then blocking a variety of proposals from major allies, developing countries and even William Reilly, his own Environmental Protection Agency director, that were designed to improve the environment into the 21st century. Bush seemed to be caught between two constituencies he holds dear -- on one side conservatives and business leaders who oppose spending on the environment, and on the other conservationists whose support he courted in 1988 -- and the trip loomed as a potential failure. Bush would neither get credit at home for attending the summit nor win points for quashing...