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Despite those challenges, when Javier Perez de Cuellar prepared to leave the office in late 1991, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egypt's Deputy Prime Minister and one of the world's better-known diplomats, lobbied hard to be his successor. Boutros-Ghali, now 70, had ambitious ideas -- foremost among them the desire to reshape the cumbersome, inefficient organization and deal aggressively with the problems of a world reinventing itself after the cold war. The U.N. seemed to be the beacon for a new planetary order; he was confident he could lead it in that direction...
...perfect opportunity, urged President Carlos Andres Perez, for his countrymen "definitely and totally" to repudiate the aborted attempt last month to topple his government. For only the second time, Venezuelans had the chance to elect directly 22 state governors and 282 mayors. People responded, all right -- by throwing their support behind the opposition. Voters' rejection of the ruling Democratic Action party was widely interpreted as a sign of dissatisfaction with Venezuela's inflated economy and political corruption. Candidates from the President's party lost four of 11 state governorships...
...Eliane (Catherine Deneuve), the owner of a rubber plantation, raises Camille (Linh Dan Pham), an orphan princess of Annam, as her own daughter. What could separate these two beautiful women? Only the nationalist uprising of the 1940s and the women's competing love for a handsome French officer (Vincent Perez), a kind of Lieut. Pinkerton in this Mademoiselle Saigon...
EARLY FRIDAY MORNING, A VENEZUELAN STATE radio-TV channel broadcast a tape of Lieut. Colonel Hugo Chavez Frias declaring that President Carlos Andres Perez had been deposed by a coup. Premature: Chavez Frias, who led a failed coup in February, is still in jail, and by dawn Perez was broadcasting that this attempt too had failed. But then rebel planes bombed the presidential palace, and inmates staged an uprising in a Caracas prison. Saturday morning, government officials were reporting nearly 100 deaths. Sporadic fighting continued, but with the capture of several coup leaders and the surrender of other rebels...
...Perez also said that Wald may have felt stymiedby the Law School bureaucracy and by otheradministrators. "I think Dean Wald began toquestion whether or not her effectiveness mighthave reached its limit," he said...