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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...
SLIGHT ETHICAL DIFFICULTIES: A bit of a thumbs-down for sponsoring proliferation, destablizing the post-Cold War world, purveying weapons of death and possibly bringing about Armageddon...
...speech focused on post-Cold War politics, Bassam Tibi, a German professor of international relations, called Bush's foreign policy goals unrealistic and vague...
...must demonstrate that it will go just as far to win the peace. "A lot of people at the U.N., including our European allies as well as the Third World, look at the way we handle the Arab-Israeli conflict as a litmus test for our role in the post-cold war world," says Shibley Telhami, who was born a Palestinian Christian in Israel and served as an adviser to the U.S. delegation to the U.N. during the gulf war. The choice for Washington is not between sitting back cost free or taking a risk for peace. Rather, the choice...
Boren said he based his decision in part on the need for a veteran intelligence professional who can quickly make the changes needed to put the spy agency on a post-Cold War footing...