Word: ghali
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CIVIL WAR HAS TO REACH A HIDEOUS CODA TO scare off the rest of the world; Yugoslavia has achieved that state of savagery. Calling the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina "tragic, dangerous, violent and confused," U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali seemed to admit that the international community has lost any hope of controlling the desperately bloody dispute , among the enraged republics that formerly made up Yugoslavia. The U.N., he ruled, cannot send more peacekeeping troops into the Balkans because the fighting is too ferocious. All the West can do is tighten the diplomatic thumbscrews and listen to the screams...
...since Jan. 3. Last week Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic said, "The conditions now exist for a peaceful and democratic solution." That is thanks largely to four outsiders: Javier Perez de Cuellar, the former U.N. Secretary-General, who laid the ground for the intervention last fall; his successor, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who engineered the Security Council's decision two weeks ago to dispatch the troops; Lord Carrington, the chief envoy in the European Community's effort to broker an overall political settlement among the pieces of the shattered Yugoslav federation; and Cyrus Vance, who has labored for five months...
...Secretary-General BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI has begun a much needed streamlining of the organization's unwieldy bureaucracy. Among the first to go was Therese Sevigny, the Canadian who headed public information. But that leaves no top-ranking women at the New York City mother ship of the institution that purports to represent everyone on earth. Women at the U.N. are fuming. The U.N. charter clearly prohibits sex discrimination. Well, it sounds good...
...Boutros-Ghali has spent a lifetime in international affairs as a professor, politician and diplomat. When he was named Secretary-General last November, however, it was not so much because of his experience in the world arena as because the Africans insisted it was their turn for leadership of the U.N. As an Egyptian, Boutros-Ghali was on their list of six acceptable candidates, even though he is a highly Europeanized Christian Arab. The Security Council, bowing to the Africans' demand, chose...
Still, Boutros-Ghali may turn out to be just the right man for the job. In his first speech to the General Assembly, he pledged to "examine every proposal for streamlining our operations, eliminating what is wasteful or obsolete." But he must act within six months, say the reformers, before he is co-opted by the bureaucracy and loses the fresh, critical view of a newcomer...