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...Center bombing, on charges that they planned to blow up the United Nations, two highway tunnels under the Hudson River and a federal building in Manhattan in which the FBI has offices. The group also planned to assassinate New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak...
...Bosnia almost 10,000 U.N. troops help deliver relief under extremely dangerous conditions. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has requested 7,500 more soldiers to enforce so-called safe havens around six Muslim towns under Serbian siege. But that plan was flawed from the outset: many fear the safe areas will turn into permanent refugee camps guarded indefinitely by U.N. soldiers. And it is proving nearly impossible to implement. U.N. troops are routinely refused access to Muslim areas by Serb commanders, cannot shoot unless fired upon or intervene even when they witness / atrocities. Britain and France, who supply most...
...subsequent buildup had proceeded slowly. A promised contingent of 7,000 troops, including 4,000 from India, never arrived. As the weeks gave way to months, says Robert Oakley, the U.S. special envoy during the opening phases of Operation Restore Hope, "we kept telling Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali we were leaving, but he wouldn't take it seriously...
...military, the job is finished. The hand-off to the U.N. officially began on May 1 when Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali started paying the bills. Last week Turkish General Cevik Bir took command of the 30- nation contingent that will eventually number 28,000. U.S. troops are streaming home. By June 1 only 4,000 will remain -- 1,300 as a rapid- deployment unit, plus 2,700 others left in charge of logistics...
UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI could be trying to loosen America's grip on power within the U.N. One new Under Secretary-General was scolded by Boutros-Ghali for choosing an American as his deputy. And when Bush appointee Dick Thornburgh left as U.N. Under Secretary-General of Administration and Management, Boutros-Ghali tried to take the influential position from America and give the U.S. a frilly public relations post instead. An American official in the U.N. complains that it's "a very clearly anti-American bent." However, with just one superpower left in the world, Boutros-Ghali...