Word: ghali
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...filled with rhetoric about "angry white males," with middle-aged militiamen in weekend camouflage promising armed struggle against Washington. The National Rifle Association complained about the government's "jackbooted thugs." The assault-rifle fringe could hear black helicopters descending, as if to deliver Boutros Boutros-Ghali, dark men in blue helmets and World Government...
Buchanan's conservatism feeds on fear and derision. "You're not doing well? Blame the immigrant who took your job, the New York Jew, 'Bou-Bou Ghali' (I kid you not--his term), the countries with which we trade and the liberals who dilute the American soul." It is the conservatism of the opportunist, and it builds nothing...
...Lately I get the feeling that Clinton waits for phone calls from [United Nations Secretary General Boutros] Boutros-Ghali and then decides what to do," he added...
...crisis has again caught the attention of the international community. Shamed by their failure to prevent the massacre of more than 500,000 people in Rwanda, senior officials--from United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Madeleine Albright--have sounded the alarm in recent weeks. But once again international action--if it ever comes-may be too late to save Burundi from self-destruction. "What is happening here is like a poison gas," warns U.N. senior political adviser Hani Abdel-Aziz in Bujumbura. "You don't feel it because you don't have...
Dismayed by the worsening situation and the potential for even greater carnage should the shaky coalition government collapse, the U.N.'s Boutros-Ghali has once again called for foreign intervention. Few observers would dispute that Burundi needs help. But the Secretary-General's proposal for a quick-reaction force based in Zaire or Tanzania that could intervene "in the event of a sudden deterioration of the situation" has so far met with only a lukewarm response. Western governments, wary of repeating the high-profile failure of the intervention in Somalia, are reluctant to commit foreign troops to a country with...