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...State-designate Madeleine Albright negotiated throughout the week with the French U.N. ambassador. By Thursday, Annan had 14 of the 15 Security Council votes, with only France dissenting, and Paris finally gave way when all three African nations on the council, including Boutros-Ghali's Egypt, united behind the Ghanaian. Annan must now deal with the U.N.'s huge budget deficit and its controversial peacekeeping role. The new boss is experienced at both...
UNITED NATIONS: The UN General Assembly officially approved Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Annan to succeed Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. TIME's Marguerite Michaels says Annan will begin his term on January 1 on significantly better footing with the U.S. than his predecessor: "Five years ago, when Boutros-Ghali was being considered, the U.S. was apprehensive because even then he had a reputation for arrogance. He was also not an administrator, which is what the U.S. wanted." Annan, on the other hand, is the United States' hand-picked choice, and resentment of that fact will undoubtedly hinder the diplomat's relations...
...highway. Rockets fell near a U.N convoy, supplying food and supplies to besieged villages in the South, damaging a U.N armored vehicle. No injuries were reported. Israeli war planes also blasted a pipeline which provides water to 23 villages in southern Lebanon as well as to Irish, Finnish and Ghanaian U.N camps...
...peacekeeping force of 2,500 French troops, based in southwestern Rwanda since June, prepared to hand over its mission to a U.N. contingent of Ghanaian and Ethiopian soldiers. But the pending transfer threatened to spark such a mass exodus of Hutu, fearful of the predominantly Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic + Army, that Zaire closed its border at Bukavu in an effort to prevent another Goma...
...said to be responsible for one of the bloodiest airplane hijackings of the 1980s was shocked last week to find himself in a Washington court. Omar Mohammed Ali Rezaq had been in a Ghanaian prison when authorities put him on a plane for Lagos, setting an elaborate police operation in motion. In a deal with the U.S., Nigeria refused to let him enter the country. U.S. agents who had slipped aboard the Nigeria-bound jetliner then had him arrested. Rezaq is said to be the sole survivor among the Palestinian hijackers who seized Egypt Air Flight 648 in 1985. After...