Word: sadruddin
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...citizen, estimates that almost 400 villages were eliminated, in the sense that they were "destroyed completely, with their houses, garden-walls, and even cemeteries and tombstones, so that literally a stone does not remain standing, and visitors are passing and being told that "it was all desert.'" When Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, the U.N. High Commissioner for refugees, referred to the Bosnians as "the Palestinians of Europe," perhaps he also should have referred to the Serbs as "the Israelis of Europe." Indeed, the pattern of their thinking and practices is terrifyingly similar...
...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 Sadruddin Aga Khan, a veteran U.N. figure who had his eye on the job for 20 years, no one had enough votes to force a runoff. The four Europeans on the ballot, including the first woman to be considered, Norway's Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, trailed badly...
Mounting concern for the plight of hungry Iraqi citizens is also forcing Washington and its European allies to temper their hard-line stance on continued economic sanctions. The drumbeat to ease the embargo began when Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, who heads the U.N.'s relief efforts in the gulf, warned that food and medicine shortages presented "a humanitarian crisis that could degenerate into a catastrophe." His recommendation: a U.N.-regulated sale of Iraqi oil to raise $2.6 billion, enough to cover humanitarian needs for the next four months. Last week the Bush Administration reluctantly supported a one-time-only...