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...sonorous voice is familiar around the world. No matter what the crisis of the day, Kofi Annan's soft baritone always manages to convey a sense of imperturbable gravitas. Yet his calm must have been sorely tested last week when the U.N. Secretary-General learned more about the latest trouble lapping at his door. Annan had gathered a few top aides at a private site to discuss the scandal over the U.N.'s management of the oil-for-food program during the reign of Iraq's Saddam Hussein. In the middle of the discussion, a staff member's cell phone...
...officials angry with Kofi Annan? The U.N. Secretary-General is not accused of wrongdoing, but he refuses to compel U.N. employees to testify before U.S. congressional committees investigating the fraud, angering Senators of both parties. Annan appointed Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, to lead a U.N. investigation of the program. Volcker says separate congressional inquiries would impede his work. Investigators are also looking into Cotecna, a Swiss contractor for which Annan's son Kojo worked as a consultant...
...Most UN member states believe the Bush administration used the fact that Iraq had not been certified by the Security Council as compliant with its disarmament obligations as a pretext for invading, even though, as Secretary General Kofi Annan himself has charged, the Council provided no legal authorization for the invasion. Many foreign governments fear that Washington hopes to bring the Iran matter to the Security Council simply to provide a pretext for another military action that would be opposed by most of the international community. And last week's allegations by outgoing Secretary of State Powell that Iran...
...they heard it--they have seen no palpable evidence that Bush plans to change course in a second term. The Secretary's good-soldier days in an unfriendly Administration are over. At about the same time, another story began to circulate, this one involving Bush and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. "In my second term," the President told Annan, "I want to secure a Middle East peace but I don't want to fall into the same trap as Clinton." That story is true, according to several sources...
...fate of Iraq may be determined by the answer to a larger question: Will the President continue on the abrasive, unilateral path of his first term, or will he seek, as he implied to Kofi Annan, a more ameliorative approach now that he has been re-elected. A key may be the fate of Donald Rumsfeld. He wants to stay on at the Pentagon, but the President may decide that a fresh start requires the sacking of the man who presided over the Abu Ghraib abuses, the no-bid Halliburton contracts and the post-Saddam planning disaster. The "legacy" Republicans...