Word: ghali
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United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali pledged to honor Rwanda's demand that the U.N. end its two-year peacekeeping mission, which officially expires this Friday. Military forces could be gone within three months. Though millions of Hutu refugees from the losing side of Rwanda's violent civil war fear revenge from victorious Tutsis should they venture home, the Kigali government insists there is no need for an international police force within its borders. That's true up to a point, Nairobi bureau chief Andrew Purvis reports: "The government can provide security for the Tutsis, but there...
...crowd-pleasing doses of conservative dogma: a riff on making English the nation's official language, a plea to end late-term abortions, and Dole's favorite promise. "If I'm President," he says, "American troops will never serve under the command of [United Nations Secretary-General] Boutros Boutros-Ghali"--stringing out the two Boutroses to ensure the most pejorative pronunciation...
...With the debacle of Bosnia, in which a "protective" contingent of Blue Helmets could scarcely protect itself, respect for the institution as peacekeeper went into nearly full eclipse. A world that once saw U.N. personnel as angels of redemption witnessed the sight last December of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali enduring jeers on the streets of Sarajevo. Earlier last year, the peacekeeping sentinel sat on his hands as a volcanic outbreak of bloodshed in Rwanda engulfed half a million people. What appears now to be a prospect for peace in Bosnia has not afforded any graceful exit...
...convene to celebrate the United Nations' 50th anniversary. The proceedings began on Sunday when 191 leaders and other officials--representing enemies, allies and everything in between--stood side by side to pose for a photograph. Bill Clinton was there in the front row, with U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on his left and Jiang Zemin of China on his right. Relations between the U.S. and China may be strained, but Clinton and Jiang chatted animatedly during the session. Boris Yeltsin was also in the front row (two places to the right of Clinton), standing to the left of France...
Will such efforts develop beyond bare beginnings? Much may depend on Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali; and his record in promoting reform is, to put it charitably, mixed. One example: while the U.N. generates a mountain of policy statements and proclamations about women's rights, its own record as an equal-opportunity employer is poor. By this year women were supposed to hold 25% of executive jobs, but the actual figure will be only about 16.6%. The reason, says Ciceil Gross, former president of the Group on Equal Rights for Women at the U.N., is that "there is no will...