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...question is easier. Why Bosnia? For one thing, because it is a victim of evident, if not altogether naked, cross-border aggression. This may sound like a mincing lawyer's brief, but split hairs have become the tightrope that cases for intervention must tread. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali lashed out two weeks ago at British critics for faulting his lack of deference to the Security Council's big powers. The West's sympathies for Yugoslavia, he suggested, had claimed priority over equally desperate crises in the Third World. Newspapers in London may have rebuked him, he cracked, "because...
Another conflict has broken out requiring fast action by the United Nations Security Council. Alas, this one is in the council's own chamber. The row between U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and the U.N.'s center of power turned even more acrimonious when the Secretary-General suggested, in an interview published in the New York Times, that racism might be a factor behind a torrent of criticism from the British press. "Maybe," surmised ) Boutros-Ghali, it was "because I'm a wog." Western diplomats were shocked at the insinuation and the epithet; but many Third World envoys quietly...
...Boutros-Ghali and the Security Council have been on a collision course since he took office last January. Though thoroughly cosmopolitan and a graduate of universities in Cairo and Paris, the Egyptian, the first Arab and first African Secretary-General, sees himself as a champion of the Third World. He is demanding that the political chaos and famine in Somalia be given as much attention as the carnage in Yugoslavia, which he would put largely in the hands of the European Community. Some council members grumble that he is arrogant and inattentive and that he too often goes over their...
...moral obligation of that kind, however, is by nature universal and would have to be applied across the board. Military intervention cannot be restricted to what U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali crudely referred to as a "rich man's war." It logically implies that U.N. intervention in Eastern Europe should be matched by similar action in other catastrophic conflicts: in Somalia, Ethiopia, Burundi, Burma and elsewhere. By the same token, this new world cannot be managed unilaterally by the U.S. but must instead work from the consent of all major powers around the globe. It would have...
Secretary Boutros Boutros-Ghali complained about the attention the Balkan war was receiving in contrast with the Somalian famine, calling it a "rich man's war." While Boutros-Ghali's rage at the lack of action on Somalia is understandable, his statement is reprehensible. As Secretary General, his job is tolead and marshal support for U.N. efforts, not to diminish one tragedy in the face of another. At a time when inspiring leadership is needed at the U.N., Boutros-Ghali has sunk to the level of ridiculous name-calling...