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President Clinton traveled with U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince to oversee the transfer of authority for the country's security from American troops to a U.N. peacekeeping force. But what should have been a foreign-policy triumph for the Administration was marred by the assassination three days earlier of a leading opponent of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's--and suspicions that a Cabinet-level Haitian minister was linked...
...discussion, Boutros-Ghali was asked questions by the panel members ranging from his definition of peace to the possibility of redrawing the borders of African countries...
...Boutros-Ghali, who is Egyptian, began serving his five-year term as Secretary-General...
Asked by Pharr what steps students should take if they were interested in entering foreign affairs, Boutros-Ghali encouraged students to be diplomatic and to learn lots of foreign languages for "languages are the common denominator for negotiations...
...Boutros-Ghali cut short his final remarks to answer three questions from the audience. Shetty said that during a reception with students Boutros-Ghali was very approachable...