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United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali opened a three-day conference in Naples, Italy with a plea to law-enforcement officials from 138 nations to develop a global plan to combat growing international organized crime -- including more sophisticated police networks and legal systems for younger democracies. "In Europe, in Asia, in Africa and in America, the forces of darkness are at work and no society is spared," he said. But Attorney General Janet Reno and delegates from Britain, Australia and other countries immediately shot the idea down as too ambitious, saying countries should focus on national laws. Still, Russian...
...some of the former republics of Yugoslavia, including Bosnia. This recognition transformed a civil war into an international conflict. America is surely the last country in the world to deny captive peoples the right to go their own way. But the process has got out of hand. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the Secretary-General of the United Nations (you know about the United Nations; it's close to what you hoped the League of Nations would be) puts the problem precisely: "If each minority will ask for self-determination, rather than 184 nations around the world, we may have...
...grave 78 miles from Rwanda's capital of Kigali. The corpses are believed to be Tutsi murdered by the majority Hutu during the recent three-month civil war -- and just a fraction of the half-million thought dead. The find increases the pressure on U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to set up a war-crimes tribunal for the perpetrators before the surviving Tutsi -- who won the war -- take matters into their own hands...
Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali declared a United Nations effort to coax Haiti's leaders out of power a failure, after the junta refused to meet with a U.N. envoy Monday. And today, four Carribean countries agreed to supply 266 peacekeeping soldiers to police Haiti after a possible U.S. invasion. At a meeting in Kingston, Jamaica, senior U.S. officials elicited the troop promises from Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and Belize, but the three other Caribbean Community members with armies -- Guyana, the Bahamas and Antigua -- balked at the last minute without immediate explanation. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott and Deputy Defense...
...United Nations is speeding up its investigations into the mass killings in Rwanda's three-month civil war, in an attempt to head off the new Rwandan government's plans for its own trials. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali gave a three-member investigative commission up to four months to find out whether defeated Hutu officers -- most of them now encamped in Zaire -- should face an international tribunal. The Tutsi-controlled Kigali government agreed...