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...Secretary-General BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI has begun a much needed streamlining of the organization's unwieldy bureaucracy. Among the first to go was Therese Sevigny, the Canadian who headed public information. But that leaves no top-ranking women at the New York City mother ship of the institution that purports to represent everyone on earth. Women at the U.N. are fuming. The U.N. charter clearly prohibits sex discrimination. Well, it sounds good...
...Boutros-Ghali's predecessor, Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru, retired with well-earned praise for his achievements as a peacemaker. He accepted the Nobel Prize for his peacekeeping forces in 1988, but his stewardship of the U.N. was flawed. He resented and resisted suggestions for change, taking them as personal criticisms. His most serious shortcoming during his decade in office was his unwillingness to bring the U.N. bureaucracy under control...
...Canada's ambassador to the U.N., says the organization suffers from "overlapping mandates" among its different agencies. A single water project in Africa, for example, might have six agencies vying for control. "We've witnessed some appalling turf wars," says Fortier. To avert future battles, he urges Boutros-Ghali to "commandeer the system and make sure that the barons are not always getting in each other's way and trying to outdo sister agencies." Last month the General Assembly took a first step to control duplication and infighting among humanitarian aid programs by calling for the appointment of a high...
...Boutros-Ghali has spent a lifetime in international affairs as a professor, politician and diplomat. When he was named Secretary-General last November, however, it was not so much because of his experience in the world arena as because the Africans insisted it was their turn for leadership of the U.N. As an Egyptian, Boutros-Ghali was on their list of six acceptable candidates, even though he is a highly Europeanized Christian Arab. The Security Council, bowing to the Africans' demand, chose...
Still, Boutros-Ghali may turn out to be just the right man for the job. In his first speech to the General Assembly, he pledged to "examine every proposal for streamlining our operations, eliminating what is wasteful or obsolete." But he must act within six months, say the reformers, before he is co-opted by the bureaucracy and loses the fresh, critical view of a newcomer...