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When Kweisi Mfume took the helm of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (N.A.A.C.P.) in 1996, the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization was in crisis. Mired in debt and stung by a sex scandal involving ousted executive director Benjamin Chavis, the group needed a leader who could restore its credibility. Mfume, a five-term Democratic Congressman from Baltimore, stepped up to the challenge. Through a campaign of corporate sponsorship, he erased the group's $3.2 million in debt and stockpiled $15 million in cash reserves...
...crushing level of personal financial liability as well. That's the latest tremor to rock the business world. It springs from a deal in which 10 former directors at WorldCom (now MCI) will dig deep into their pockets to settle lawsuits stemming from the phone company's accounting scandal and plunge into bankruptcy...
...Your story on U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the oil-for-food scandal [Dec. 13] conceded that neither Annan nor his son has been found guilty of anything improper or illegal. You noted that Annan is defending himself against a "small but determined band of congressional foes" who have launched five separate congressional investigations. But why focus on problems at the U.N. instead of the real scandal of the day: lying by the U.S. President to take us to war? Trey Casimir Lewisburg, Pennsylvania...
...Annan's problems are not the result of a vendetta by conservatives in the U.S. government. Either Annan wasn't minding the store during the oil-for-food thievery or he was part of the scandal. Because the U.S. pays a large share of the U.N.'s expenses, it is not heavy handed of us to demand to know how some people received preferential deals to buy Iraqi oil below market price and then reap huge profits. The U.N. has been an anti-American club for years. One of the many reasons its credibility is questioned is the failure...
DIED. ROSEMARY KENNEDY, 86, oldest sister of President John F. Kennedy and the inspiration for the Special Olympics; in Fort Atkinson, Wis. Born mildly retarded, she was 23 when her father Joseph Kennedy, afraid of a scandal that could damage the family's reputation, arranged for her to have a lobotomy. The operation reduced her to an infantlike state, and she spent most of the rest of her life in an institution. In 1968 her younger sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, created the Special Olympics in her honor...