Word: ghali
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...ISSUE U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali is nominated for a second term...
...VETO Calling Boutros-Ghali's reform efforts "halfhearted," the U.S. vetoes the nomination in a closed session...
Annan's predecessors as U.N. Secretary-General--Kurt Waldheim, Javier Perez de Cuellar, Boutros Boutros-Ghali--were a gray parade of deliberately inoffensive floats. But Annan, in his three years on the job, has shown himself to be a brass band of hope, ideas and energy. His critics fault the slow pace of reform he has brought to the U.N. They argue that even armed with a management degree from M.I.T., he is badly overmatched by the U.N.'s thick bureaucracy. But mostly they chew away at his idealistic, moral world view. The U.N. continues to have its problems...