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With surprising ease, the 15-member Security Council recommended the appointment of Javier Pérez de Cuellar, 61, a Peruvian diplomat virtually unknown outside diplomatic circles. The 157-member General Assembly is expected to ratify the choice this week...
...there was one hitch: his detractors included Soviet Ambassador Oleg Troyanovsky, who, because he represents one of the council's five permanent members, was entitled to veto any candidate. This he did, considering Sadruddin too pro-Western. That opened the way for the runner-up, Pérez, who had won eight votes in the straw poll. In the official secret ballot held Friday he received ten votes, including that of the U.S. "I feel free again," said a gracious Waldheim after the decision. "They have chosen a very good...
...outgoing Secretary-General was in a position to know. Pérez, a diplomat since 1944, served as Peruvian Ambassador to Switzerland and to the Soviet Union before first heading his country's delegation to the U.N. in 1971. Waldheim has entrusted Pérez with a number of delicate missions. In 1975, he became the Secretary-General's special representative in strife-torn Cyprus. Four years later, Waldheim appointed Pérez Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs. Most recently, he represented Waldheim in an effort to solve the ticklish issue raised by the Soviet Union...
Colleagues describe Pérez as likable and unpretentious, though lacking in dynamism. In other words, he possesses the very qualities that major powers generally seek in a Secretary-General. "Pérez is a very decent chap," says Under Secretary-General Brian Urquhart, a Briton who has worked closely with him. Pérez is often compared to U Thant, the quiet, self-effacing Burmese who served in the U.N.'s highest office from 1961 to 1971. Unlike Waldheim, the Peruvian does not have a reputation as a workaholic. Still, diplomats welcome his familiarity with the international organization...
...sustain its good intentions toward its neighbors. Venezuela's own economic house is not totally in order. Unemployment is estimated at 12%, inflation at 15%. One reason for the economy's woes is that Herrera Campíns' predecessor, Carlos Andrés Pérez, encouraged a series of ill-advised state enterprises, such as steelmaking and air transport, that last year ran up losses estimated at $2.5 billion. Other important sectors of the economy, mainly agriculture, have been corroded by the massive inflow of oil money: once a self-sufficient food producer, Venezuela now imports...