Word: ghali
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years. I never said 15 years," laughs Counter, who has been at the Foundation for 17 years now. Over the years, he has helped student groups bring notables such as Mary Robinson, president of Ireland, Secretaries General of the United Nations Javier Perez-DeCullar and Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Nobel laureate and Archbishop Desmond Tutu to promote peace and intercultural understanding...
...recent years, the Foundation has brought such notable speakers as former U.N. Secretary-General Boutros-Boutros Ghali, poet and author Maya Angelou, author Graham Greene and ChangLin Tien, former chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley...
WASHINGTON, D.C: Shades of Boutros-Boutros Ghali. The U.S. insists that the first round of NATO expansion include just three countries: Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. "The United States position is firm," said White House press secretary Mike McCurry. Though most NATO members would prefer to include Romania and Slovenia as well, the dispute is not critical. Fearing that including all five of the key nominees would make it harder to achieve the next round of NATO expansion, leaving countries like Albania out in the military alliance cold, Clinton wants to make two strong candidates wait. At NATO headquarters...
...Committee's courtly porcupine, chairman Jesse Helms, who had signaled which candidates would never get past his committee. Aides say the North Carolina Senator always had a soft spot for Albright as a fellow full-throated anticommunist. He was delighted that she had ousted U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, loved her attacks on Cuba. But Albright wasn't taking chances. One day, as a favor to a friend, Helms called her in New York and asked if she would come to North Carolina to speak at a foundation luncheon...
...have very set and consistent principles, but I am flexible on tactics. I like to get the job done." Translation: the ends justify the means. When criticized about her role in the crude U.S. campaign to dump U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Albright responds, "At times it was a little messy, but I'm really proud of what happened there. I think we delivered to the U.S. and the U.N." She justifiably claims credit for sweet-talking the U.N. into blessing Washington's invasion of Haiti, the first time the U.N. ever approved a U.S. military intervention...