Word: urquhart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keep my money as long as possible." Reporter-Researcher JoAnn Lum, who assisted Senior Writer Otto Friedrich with the cover story, will also delay filing till deadline time: "I hate it," she says, "so I always procrastinate." Another reporter-researcher who worked on the cover story was Sidney Urquhart; she and her husband, with two jobs and six children between them, find the services of an accountant helpful, as does New York Correspondent Adam Zagorin...
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...
Charles, who had previously projected a kind of steady, Urquhart-plaid personality, seemed to pick up some more dash, as if he were beginning to realize rather belatedly what his sporting friends would happily have told him: that he had made a damned lucky catch...
...future of Namibia (South West Africa) had ended in acrimony. South Africa, which has administered the former German territory since 1920, once again rejected a Western proposal to end the civil war that has wrenched mineral-rich Namibia for more than a decade. Concluded Britain's Brian Urquhart, the U.N. Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs, who ran the conference: "A great opportunity was missed...