Word: fran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaving for Iran ahead of the vote, Waldheim was able to claim that he alone had made the decision to go. Insisted his spokesman, François Giuliani: "The trip has nothing to do with the Security Council resolution." Waldheim hoped that this would head off any argument that he was acting under orders from the U.S., or that Tehran was allowing him into Iran under pressure from the threat of sanctions. It was the sort of face-saving gesture that has earned the Secretary-General a reputation as a master of diplomatic technicalities and procedures, but its effect...