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...Clinton administration has pledged $150 million in aid for Rwanda as well as up to 4,000 US military personnel to coordinate airdrops. UN. Secretary General Boutros-Ghali estimates that the effort will run approximately $434 million. Nonetheless the efforts at best would reduce the spread of disease and privation in the camps. What of resettling the Rwandans in their own country? This is the only way to diffuse the crisis. Resettlement will require a major military commitment on the part of the United States. Rwanda is still an armed camp with sporadic clashes between Hutus and Tutsis still occurring...
...Boutros-Ghali: The U.N. chief speaks his mind...
...conversation with TIME last week, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros- Ghali vented his frustration at the inaction of the world community in Rwanda...
Meanwhile, at the U.N., Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali was revising his figures upward as he urged a massive relief effort. The early estimate was $274 million, but "at this very moment, as I am speaking," he said on Friday, "Rwanda's needs are constantly growing." He put the new figure at $434 million, but who could precisely calculate the cost of a catastrophe that $ kept growing? That same day, U.N. relief agencies were busy redrawing their maps after 200,000 more refugees crossed the northwest frontier into Zaire in just 24 hours...
...economic and the cultural ((problems)) -- and what's done the day after ((an invasion)), the week after, the month after, the year after." Lining up international support is crucial, since the U.S. wants a multinational peacekeeping mission to take over from an American invasion force. Secretary- General Boutros Boutros-Ghali says, however, that the U.N. cannot afford to take on that job; organizing the peacekeepers and arranging to pay for them would have to be done...