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...Clinton team would love to put off the sanctions debate so Israel can devise a face-saving way out. But outspoken U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali got the Palestinians smelling blood. The Security Council, he advised, should use "whatever measures are required" to enforce the month- old resolution calling for the return of the deportees. The P.L.O., which has observer status at the U.N., is pushing hard among Arab and nonaligned members to bar Israel from international conferences on human rights. It also proposes barring nations from trading with Israeli companies that do business in the occupied territories...
...chance. Creation of a force cannot start until the Security Council passes an authorizing resolution, and no drafts are yet circulating. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has discussed with some U.N. members possible troop contributions to a force that might exceed 20,000. But he has had only perfunctory contacts with President Clinton's advisers, and no one seems to be discussing the vital question of rules of engagement -- that is, under what circumstances the peacekeepers could shoot. So the 25,000 U.S. and 12,000 other foreign troops remaining in Somalia may be stuck for weeks or months...
...General's job, those qualifications clearly helped. He was also helped by being African, though black Africans preferred their own candidate. Working against him was his age, an issue he defused by declaring that he would serve only a single five-year term. Washington was initially unenthusiastic about Boutros-Ghali but warmed to him when he quickly instituted bureaucratic reforms, cutting 14 high-level jobs and putting other top officials on one-year contracts. Today U.S. officials have renewed their skepticism. "The U.S. finds him too independent-minded," said one U.N. observer. "He doesn't consult enough...
...Boutros-Ghali has his defense ready. "My role is becoming more difficult, not because of the absence of cooperation among the five permanent members of the Security Council but because of the multiplication of problems," he says. "The U.N. never before had to deal with so many big problems at the same time...
...deployed quickly. "If the U.S., as a superpower, has discovered that it cannot be a global cop, how can we expect that role of the Secretary-General, with his meager resources?" asks a British diplomat. Despite persistent problems for the U.N. around the world, and his personal abrasiveness, Boutros-Ghali has shown that the organization can play a constructive, perhaps ultimately even decisive, role in the quest for peace. What he needs is for member nations to set reasonable goals -- and then give him the wherewithal to see them through...