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...United Nations' African bloc, the election last week of Egyptian diplomat Boutros Boutros Ghali as the new Secretary-General to succeed the retiring Javier Perez de Cuellar was a semisweet victory. The Africans had engineered their continent's first turn at the helm of the world organization -- and had outmaneuvered the big guns of the U.S. and Britain to achieve it. But Ghali was the "least African" candidate put forward by a bloc that dearly wanted to see the job go to a sub-Saharan black...
American and British officials privately disdained all the candidates as lacking stature and experience for the top spot at the U.N. in the post-cold war era and regarded Ghali, 69, as too old. To the surprise of Security Council members, his victory came on the first official ballot. The last straw poll had given the edge to the leading black African candidate, Zimbabwean Finance Minister Bernard Chidzero. But on the first tally, 11 members selected Ghali and none of the five permanent members of the Security Council vetoed him. Among the other candidates, including Chidzero and early favorite Prince...
...fellow Arabs that the enemy is not Iraq but the Zionists and their American backers. Israeli security forces played right into his hands last week when they fired into an angry Palestinian mob on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, killing 19 Palestinians and wounding 140. The deaths, said Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egypt's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, were "Israel's great gift to Saddam Hussein...
ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER, PUBLISHER INTERNATIONAL: Teymour Boutros-Ghali...
ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER, PUBLISHER INTERNATIONAL: Teymour Boutros-Ghali...