The Secretary-Generalissimo
Gedmin, Jeffrey
Jeffrey Gedmin The Secretary-Generalissimo Since Bill Clinton doesn't seem to want to do it, U.N. secretary-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali is finding it easy to run U.S. foreign policy. W hen...
...Just last winter, he miffed Israel with efforts to force the Jewish state into welcoming back 100 deportees—without publicly acknowledging their association with Hamas, whose stated goal is to fight "until the last Jew in the world is exterminated...
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...Mohammed Aidid has accused the secretary-general of having been too close to Mohammed Siad Barre, the deposed Somali president...
...While he collected his share of enemies (not least Osama Al-Baz, President Hosni Mubarak's chief of staff), adversaries have in the past been decisively outweighed by friends and admirers...
...effort even though Security Council resolutions had already empowered member states to deliver emergency aid to Bosnia "by all measures necessary...
...He lent his support to the plan only when Clinton assured him that the mission would be undertaken in "complete coordination" with the U.N...
...forces in Somalia, said last December that the "massive undertaking" of disarming Somali forces was "certainly not part of my mission...
...By mid-September the president's advisers were backpedaling, having apparently come to realize that Americans would only support a commitment of as many as 15,000 to 20,000 troops if they were under NATO control and American command...
...in international law from the Sorbonne Iqtisadi, an economics periodical that he used as a sounding board for his quirky, and often mutually contradictory views...
...When, last year, Boutros-Ghali bridled at the Security Council's taking a decision on Bosnia without consulting him, he later explained that he had missed the council meeting because important business regarding Cyprus and Libya had drawn him away...
...Article 98 stipulates that the U.N...
...as a counterweight to American strength, calling it "crazy" that Americans think "they can lead the world again...
...He has opened an office dedicated to democracy efforts at the U.N...
...Former U.S...
...Remaining copies were confiscated and in some cases shredded...
...It was left to Peter Tarnoff, number-three in the Clinton State Department and an aide to secretary of state Cyrus Vance in the Carter years, to come up with a multilateralist alternative to Wolfowitz...
...Ironically, the Bush State Department had overcome for a time its initial opposition to Boutros-Ghali...
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...Boutros-Ghali has since called both Carter and Sadat "amateurs...
...conference space, he received word that all conference space was now approved directly by the secretary-general's office...
...32 The American Spectator November 1993 means he no longer works but continues to draw his $155,000 a year salary...
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...also barred certain organizations from holding press conferences on U.N...
...But "he's no Anwar Sadat," cautions one Boutros-Ghali acquaintance...
...He labeled the Wolfowitz memo "prehistoric...
...W hen President Bush's secretary of state Lawrence Eagleburger put his arm around U.N...
...The Washington Post threw up its hands recently over the degree of deference the Clinton White House was willing to show to "everyone—allies...
...Boutros-Ghali supposedly set out to streamline the secretariat, the office of 5,000 international civil servants who serve the secretary-general, axing fourteen high-level jobs...
...grounds...
...hands, unfathomable—unless the goal is to make all key decisions by himself...
...Boutros-Ghali flourished...
...attorney general Dick Thornburgh had worked on bureaucratic overhaul at the U.N...
...His inclinations have surprised no one, though his acerbic remark to the Security Council last year about Bosnia being just a "rich man's war" caused alarm...
...Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick has been one of the few to strenuously object to Boutros-Ghali's pursuit of this special position, an agenda, in her words, "not in the U.N...
...And U.N...
...An academic so infatuated with multilateralism that he has authored dozens of articles on the subject, he would like to see the scope and authority of U.N...
...Nor could he have anticipated the ambitious Egyptian who would assert an unprecedented mandate for multilateralism...
...Democratization must not only take hold inside a state," he told an audience at Boston's World Affairs Council this spring, "but among states in the international community...
...has B ruffled feathers...
...job and get him out of the country...
...is rebuilding a nation...
...I Feel Your Pa It is something I cannot conceal, my compassion...
...Missions range from old mainstays like humanitarian relief to a level of involvement in the internal affairs of member states unprecedented in the organization's history...
...John Judis says it's really "abnegationism" that drives Clinton policies...
...He had contended early in his career that NATO was culpable for undermining the U.N.'s universal spirit, rupturing East-West relations, and subordinating diplomacy to the law of force...
...To be sure, the Egyptian explicitly rejects the model of "faceless reticence" provided by Sir Eric Drummond, the first secretary-general of the League of Nations, the U.N.'s inter-war predecessor...
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...n his gambit to change his role into that of a kind of / international commander-in-chief, Boutros-Ghali has been audaciously reinterpreting the U.N...
...Boutros-Ghali was "never going to be a wall decoration" like his predecessor Javier Perez de Cuellar, says a former staffer from the U.N...
...American helicopters have been dodging and returning fire over the streets of Mogadishu some eight months after special envoy Robert Oakley declared that "deaths from starvation are almost gone now" and "the U.S...
...commander in the Balkans...
...Still, his haircuts, no doubt, must employ, at high wages, whole states...
...For Bush's legitimization of Operation Desert Storm through the U.N.—and later his use of the U.N...
...provides roughly a third of peacekeeping' costs, though it also leads member states in arrears...
...as a subcontractor...
...He apparently accepts the assertion that Western industrialized nations areresponsible for Third World poverty and economic backwardness...
...Predictably, Boutros-Ghali's efforts win praise from apparatchiks of the old Soviet nomenklatura...
...While some "America First" conservatives, including Pat Buchanan, attacked the memo, it was liberal detractors who led the charge, and they were bothered less by the document's internationalism than by its advocacy of American power and leadership...
...And in his writings, Boutros-Ghali has been able to find warm words for President Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, precisely because they shared his own concern about the "Zionist state expanding its territorial possessions...
...Jean Cot, senior U.N...
...The Arab nation," he opined, "would never make common cause with the East or the West, because the Third World War would again be a war of the white, European, rich nations...
...In an interview with Der Spiegel, he explained that, with the Cold War over, "our proposals would have to be accepted, like those of other countries, by the majority of the international community...
...Ambassadors complain he often bypasses them to negotiate with foreign ministers directly...
...Clinton's U.N...
...troops "basically are re-creating a country...
...diplomat, "one always understood that Boutros was not just an alter ego to the Egyptian president...
...Boutros-Ghali replied: "Call me pasha"—the Arabic word for "lord...
...interventions), Boutros-Ghali has even proposed forming his own international police force—soldiers and equipment from member states under the command of the secretary- general that would be available at a moment's notice...
...chief perform functions entrusted to him by organs such as the Security Council, in which all executive authority is invested...
...Future invitations to "objectionable people" would require prior approval by his department, the assistant added...
...Boutros-Ghali dismisses the notion that industrialized nations should be able to impose financial and economic conditions on aid, and disapproves of linking economic assistance to democracy and respect for human rights...
...took on seven new peacekeeping jobs—against thirteen in its first forty years...
...It was here that Boutros-Ghali's longstanding and enthusiastic affiliation with the Non-Aligned Movement paid handsome dividends...
...But as its pacifistic bent faded and decolonized African nations began to join in swelling numbers in the 1960s, the movement's tilt against the West became increasingly obvious...
...Boutros-Ghali had been responsible for a Sub-Saharan portfolio at the Egyptian foreign ministry...
...Niazi will report directly to the secretary-general...
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...Explains the president: "If you believe that we should engage these problems in a multilateral way . . . the United States has got to work through the United Nations, and all of our views may not always prevail...
...In a letter to Christopher in early August, the secretary general laid out objections to NATO'S choosing the time and place of air strikes...
...Wall Street Journal's David Brooks could joke that "multilateral man" commanded only "fleets of ice sculpture swans to cool his cocktail receptions...
...the centerpiece of a "new world order...
...post, he proposed that the SI issue a resolution calling for the elimination of veto power in the Security Council...
...Political pluralism," he says, is the West's "new miraculous remedy, [as if Africa could not] judge for itself the kind of democratic system best suited to its conditions and needs...
...in 1949 and returned to Egypt to teach at the University of Cairo...
...Eagleburger had argued that the Egyptian was too old and too inexperienced to manage the U.N.'s vast bureaucracy...
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...Gorbachev himself, before leaving office, had looked to the U.N...
...troops make up the bulk of some 50,000 peacekeepers, if U.N...
...Boutros-Ghali's career, nonetheless, has been a highly successful one...
...t' s in the Third World, of course, especially Africa, that Boutros-Ghali's primary interests lie...
...It was the first time such a ban at the press club had been imposed...
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...While he seems never to have been bothered much by Moscow's Iron Curtain cutting Europe in two, the threat of "an iron curtain between North and South" raises his hackles, In the post–Cold War world, Boutros-Ghali often warns, "East-West rapprochement . . . [must] not take place at the expense of the Third World...
...After surviving the 1952 revolution that brought Nasser to power, Boutros-Ghali attached himself to Nasser adviser Mohammed Haikal, who brought the young scholar into the inner circles of Egypt's foreign policy establishment...
...France and China had reportedly promised to veto a Northerner...
...It is not at all clear whether Boutros-Ghali has ever broken with the Nasserite ideology that bureaucratic authoritarianism is essential to the erosion of inequalities...
...His intellectual roots are in France, where he received a Ph.D...
...To boot, Boutros-Ghali, who largely inherited the staff of his predecessor, refuses to delegate...
...The secretary-general ordered the room locked where Shen was scheduled to speak and posted guards outside...
...Boutros-Ghali's origins (and his role in Camp David) may help explain why he was never able to rise to the post of foreign minister...
...No more "America as globocop...
...ambassador Madeleine Albright has defended the The American Spectator November 1993 31 administration's foreign policy with the label "assertive multilateralism," but even supporters have begun to wonder...
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...Boutros-Ghali is not given to speaking of "democracy's victory" in the Cold War, but alludes instead to the "discredited ideologies of the past...
...The Pentagon fended off the most ambitious proposals by Clinton's State Department and National Security staff in August to meet Boutros-Ghali's demands for a U.N...
...Joseph Biden dismissed the 30 The American Spectator November 1993 call for "military extravagance," insisting instead that the U.S...
...career official, Neelam Merani, a former director of the U.N.' s International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), was put on "special leave," which Boutros-Ghali has even proposed forming his own international police force—soldiers and equipment from member states under the command of the secretary-general that would be available at a moment's notice...
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...mission largely accomplished...
...Deploring the North's "marginalization of Africa," for instance, he contends that "the rich should accept being less rich, so that the poor can become less poor...
...Other Middle Eastern sources worry that Boutros-Ghali is guided by links to Egyptian interests in the region...
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...Security Council—because the "voice of the Third World" needs to be heard, as Boutros-Ghali said in Jakarta last summer...
...B ut what Boutros-Ghali cares about, most deeply is diminishing the role of the United States in the world—often under the euphemism of "democratizing international relations...
...as cover in explaining why he would not send American forces to Baghdad to uproot Saddam—was a foreign policy original sin...
...Boutros-Ghali's rise was accompanied by a reputation for sophistication and finesse, elegant Old World manners, and charm...
...In a May speech, Tarnoff (an opponent of Operation Desert Storm who called the Pentagon memo "chilling") made the case for Clinton-style multilateralism...
...May God help you in the new year as you helped us this year," read a sarcastic open letter from Sarajevo's citizens...
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...headquarters in New York, even though the Tiananmen Square activist, a political philosophy graduate student at Boston University, had been invited by the U.N...
...Nasser viewed aid as a moral "tax" to be levied on the West...
...True, he never joined the ranks of strident anti-Israeli voices at Socialist International meetings he chaired, say regular attendees...
...An eventual order of business is to stack the U.N...
...Even so, he is probably "more interested in collective rights than individual rights," concedes one sympathetic American human rights expert...
...Stone-hurling The now-infamous warlord Gen...
...When NATO forces announced their readiness for action in Bosnia this summer, Boutros-Ghali demanded complete control, closely following the proposals of French ambassador Jean-Bernard Merimee that the deployment be "a U.N.-controlled operation, not a NATO-controlled operation with a U.N...
...In Somalia, Boutros-Ghali has been equally interested in operational control, to the constant chagrin of the Pentagon...
...At its worst the Non-Aligned Movement became a champion of viscerally anti-Western, anti-American positions in international forums, its agenda often dominated by very much "aligned" Soviet clients like North Korea, Cuba, and Vietnam...
...His willingness to inherit his predecessor's team is unprecedented and, to career U.N...
...In his scheme, "regional organizations are to assist [the U.N.], not treat the U.N...
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...He has subsequently moved to a higher paying job in Geneva...
...Gone, evidently, are the days when the...
...Boutros-Ghali had surprised participants at a New York council meeting of the Socialist International in late 1991, when, already campaigning for the U.N...
...In part, Boutros-Ghali is riding a trend: between 1988 and his arrival, the U.N...
...A year later Boutros-Ghali became founder and editor of Al-Ahram efore taking over at B the U.N., BoutrosGhali had been in many ways a sphinx-like figure, much like his friend Warren Christopher, whom he met in the late 1970s when Boutros-Ghali was made acting foreign minister by Anwar Sadat during the Camp David process...
...use its resources to put "new muscle into institutions of collective security...
...W hen the history of America's post-Cold War foreign policy comes to be written, the names Wolfowitz and Tarnoff will figure prominently...
...Article 97 ascribes to the secretary-general the role of the organization's "chief administrative officer...
...T he French, who insisted it was time for a francophone to become secretary-general, were the key backers of Boutros-Ghali's bid for the secretary-generalship in 1991...
...This has never been done before in the history of the world, at least the modern world...
...What BoutrosNo one questions that Boutros-Ghali wants to be an "activist who initiates," says one Georgetown government professor sympathetic to the secretary-general...
...He became editor of Al-Siyasa Al-Dawlyya, the Egyptian Foreign Affairs...
...chief Boutros Boutros-Ghali as the two men shuffled into a meeting on Somalia last fall, Eagleburger addressed the Egyptian as effendi, an Arabic word for "sir...
...As an Arab millionaire married to a Jewish millionairess who converted to Catholicism, Boutros-Ghali occupies an unusual position in Egyptian society, but merely being a Copt has meant a range of unusual privileges and liabilities...
...Robert Johnston, then-commander of U.S...
...Algerian diplomat Mohammed Sahnoun, who served as Boutros-Ghali's personal envoy to Mogadishu before resigning in protest, now likens the aid operation to a military occupation...
...f the devolution of American power and the ascendancy of a "democratic" U.N...
...Estimates for this year's operations run in excess of $3.6 billion...
...Marines were asked to liberate the U.N...
...If the remark, overheard by another diplomat and reported in the Wall Street Journal, was made in jest, it was nonetheless an unwitting recognition of the recent growth in U.N...
...With the election of Bill Clinton, fervent internationalists were given hope for "real multilateralism," as Michael Lind suggested in the New Republic, not the ersatz type used by Bush in the Gulf war, where America led and an assembled coalition followed...
...One has to face the reality, he continues, that "Colombians or Fijians may not have the same level of professionalism or training as American GIs...
...Boutros-Ghali is happy to oblige: as he conceded last winter in Foreign Affairs, .he wants to "rethink the question of sovereignty...
...Former Soviet deputy foreign minister Vladimir Petrovsky—who in Moscow had served as the official spokesman on Andrei Sakharov during the scientist's banishment to Gorki—served early on as one of Boutros-Ghali's top deputies...
...It makes us sick every time we see Boutros-Ghali's picture in the paper," said a member of al-Jihad, a band inspired by the old Moslem Brotherhood, after Sadat' s assassination in October 1981...
...duty in the Sinai notes that Norwegians, for example—under whose command he worked in Egypt—simply can't comprehend the security concerns American troops must be attuned to when deployed abroad, especially in the Middle East ("No one gets their jollies killing a Norwegian like they do snuffing an American or British soldier," he says...
...He had an agenda of his own...
...Paul D. Wolfowitz, former Yale professor and ambassador to Indonesia, was the Bush administration undersecretary of defense who drafted a "guidance memo" in the spring of 1991 calling on the United States to preserve its status as sole superpower in the aftermath of the Cold War...
...Bosnian vice president Ejup Ganic charged the U.N...
...Where he has felt inclined to act (as in air strikes in Bosnia), he has permitted the secretary-general to usurp unprecedented powers over U.S...
...One Latin American ambassador who asked to see the secretary-general was given an appointment three months away...
...peacekeeping, because, according to Boutros-Ghali, the world body is undergoing a "crisis of confidence," with some members fearful of a U.N...
...And, as one of the few Egyptian diplomats who accompanied Sadat to the White House, he could even be viewed as a moderate...
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...Article 99 provides that "the Secretary-General may bring to the attention of the Security Council any matter which in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security...
...In Somalia, Pakistanis have distinguished themselves for being easily distracted when off-duty female American soldiers jog by in shorts and T-shirts...
...When he arrived at the U.N.'s 38-story tower in Manhattan, he brought only two assistants, a chauffeur, and a bodyguard (who was forced to return to Egypt after two days, in the wake of sexual assault charges brought against him by a New York hotel maid...
...During the McCarthy years, Dag Hammarskjold had once vowed to the press association that they could invite whomever they pleased without any fear of censorship...
...The United Nations controls what happens in Bosnia," the president explained at a press conference earlier this summer...
...The Americans aren't present...
...with a "complete failure," and said, "There is something missing here...
...chief would subsequently see to it that the report remained private...
...Where Clinton has expressed reluctance (as in Somalia), he has followed as the U.N...
...An aide to the secretary-general who oversees the U.N.' s Public Information department, warned that if reporters didn't heed his boss's decision, Boutros-Ghali would recommend that the press association be abolished...
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...In Somalia the U.N...
...But insiders eventually recognized much of the shuffling 'as a shell game: stickers posted in the U.N.'s garage this fall told workers facetiously where to report if they had not been reassigned to at least three new jobs in the last month...
...Robert Byrd of West Virginia derided it as "myopic" and "shallow...
...chief's bias—against him and in favor of his rival Mohammed Ali Mandi—stems from Boutros-Ghali's time as deputy prime minister...
...Mohammed Aidid has accused the secretary-general of having been too close to Mohammed Siad Barre, the deposed Somali president...
...experience, to "leave no stone unturned" in rooting out incompetent managers and corrupt officials...
...Boutros-Ghali was born on November 14, 1922, in a 100-room mansion in Cairo...
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...in New York and sees to it that any speech he gives is adorned with rhetorical bows to "promoting democracy and protecting human rights...
...was supposed to be a harbinger of global peace, evidence from the former Yugoslavia has been scarce...
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...Since last Christmas he has been tugging at the reluctant Germans to come forth and help break the old Yalta order...
...An exposé of cronyism and financial abuse published in August in the London Sunday Times prompted BoutrosGhali to name Mohammed Ali Niazi, an Egyptian with twenty-three years' U.N...
...In one incident mentioned by the Sunday Times, an Indian-born U.N...
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...In 1968, when Haikal founded the Center for Political and Strategic Studies, an offshoot of the government-controlled Al-Ahram foundation, he put BoutrosGhali in charge...
...Last year the number of soldiers in' the field quadrupled, and the budget for peacekeeping increased from $700 million to $2.8 billion...
...He said that, acting alone, "we simply don't have the leverage, we don't have the influence, we don't have the inclination to use force and we certainly don't have the money...
...An avowed sympathizer of British occupation, he was gunned down in 1910 by a member of the Mutual Brotherhood...
...Last year he attended the Non-Aligned Movement's tenth summit in Jakarta, where Indonesia's oligarchy had its turn to hold the rotating chairmanship...
...At the time, Thornburgh had criticized Boutros-Ghali for awarding "costly consulting contracts to high-level officials following their retirement or termination of their services...
...in its just-finished peacekeeping mission in Cambodia it was starting from scratch...
...My report] was suppressed," says Thornburgh...
...He also contends that the Earn $4,000 Per Month From Your Home With A Computer...
...Africans wanted a Sub-Saharan black, but were willing to live with an Egyptian, particularly since Boutros-Ghali had shown a soft spot for black African issues...
...The memo ignited a firestorm of criticism...
...I suspect Porky Pig may be one—but he's too proud to say...
...under Boutros-Ghali until he resigned his post in frustration last March...
...The request was eventually rejected because, as an assistant to Thornburgh later reported, the secretary-general "does not like" the Moroccan ambassador, who was to chair the session...
...Last February, he visited Japanese Prime Minister Miyazawa in Tokyo to push Japan into playing a bigger role in U.N...
...rapid deployment force...
...ut Boutros-Ghali's high-handedness at the U.N...
...operations sharply expand under his watch...
...She told ABC's Ted Koppel: "You know there are now 27 nations serving in Somalia, and it's a matter of great pride, I think, as you walk around and see these soldiers in their own uniforms with the U.N...
...adversaries, national governments and international organizations...
...When representatives of non-governmental human rights groups met with Boutros-Ghali recently in New York and charged that a report that no one sees has little value, Boutros-Ghali tartly replied, "I get to see the report...
...secretariat filed a pro forma request through Thornburgh's office for his non-governmental organization to hold a meeting in U.N...
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...the Soviet Union abandon its Cold War fight and help make the U.N...
...Haikal had staffed the Al-Ahram building with intellectuals whose work he hoped to harness in support of the revolutionary regime...
...secretary-general in the organization's history...
...He deplored the Wolfowitz memo, which would have meant "the end of the U.N...
...While Boutros-Ghali has dragged his feet on Bosnia, in Somalia he has been expanding the U.N.'s mandate to encompass "nation-building"—with no better results...
...34 The American Spectator November 1993 locals in Mogadishu chased his white motorcade this winter, later cornering him in a U.N...
...ambassador Madeleine Albright returned from Somalia this summer beaming like someone who'd taken part in the opening ceremonies of an Olympics...
...Clinton campaign spokesman George Stephanopoulos called it "an excuse for big [defense] budgets...
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...While the Germans have remained ambivalent, aspiring Security Council members like India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Brazil, and—surprise—Egypt are enthusiastic about the secretary-general's s plans...
...So let's make a deal: I'll inflict new taxation, you'll display resignation-and the pain that I cause you, feel...
...As the United States and its allies began to respond to the installation of eleven pro-Soviet dictatorships throughout the Third World during the late 1970s, the most adroit analysis that Boutros-Ghali could muster was to call for greater cohesion in the Non-Aligned Movement as "the superpowers have resumed their frightening arms race...
...If I were offered the job five years ago, I would have turned it down," Boutros-Ghali told the London Observer in 1991...
...The first objective, he wrote, was to "prevent the emergence of a new rival .. . that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union...
...Members of Boutros-Ghali's own staff call him "the little pharaoh...
...Charter and never agreed to by member states...
...He has, for example, belonged to the privatization wing of Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party and served as vice president of the Socialist International...
...T his summer Boutros-Ghali bent to pressure from China and barred the Dalai Lama (who fled Tibet when China annexed the region in 1959) from speaking at the U.N.-sponsored World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna...
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...Boutros-Ghali is not given to speaking of "democracy's victory" in the Cold War, but alludes instead to the "discredited ideologies of the past...
...under the sway of a lone superpower...
...Boutros-Ghali first irked the human rights community by apparently striking a deal with the military-dominated Suharto regime in Indonesia, that if Jakarta agreed to admit the secretary-general's personal envoy on a mission to investigate the November 1991 massacre in East Timor, the U.N...
...But when Clinton prepared to launch humanitarian airdrops with emergency supplies to besieged Slavic Muslims in Bosnia last January, BoutrosGhali moved to delay the operation because he suspected a separate U.S...
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...Boutros-Ghali's judgment was shaped in part by hostility The American Spectator November 1993 33 toward Israel...
...Boutros Boutros-Ghali has chosen to do things differently...
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...A New World Order, it seems, demands an array of new world rules...
...When the Pakistani commander in charge couldn't be found, U.S...
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...Clinton acquiesced to the secretary-general's role as authorizer of any action in Bosnia, with prior review of targets entrusted to Lt...
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...He was promoted to deputy prime minister in 1991, some say, to help him win the U.N...
...patch on one arm and their flag on the other...
...President Clinton has given a tentative nod to BoutrosGhali' s requests that U.S...
...His grandfather had been the first and only Coptic Christian prime minister of Egypt...
...Now, State Department spokesman David Shinn says that U.N...
...Boutros-Ghali likes to boast of his own democratic credentials, to be sure...
...Research at Al-Ahram was to approach issues with a "scientific method and in the light of a national commitment at the same time...
...It inadvertently set the stage for Boutros-Ghali's rise as the most powerful U.N...
...In another incident, Boutros-Ghali retained Viktor Sukhodrev, Gorbachev's personal interpreter, as a "special assistant" at a six-figure salary, even though Sukhodrev passed retirement age last year...
...Boutros-Ghali had been a member of the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques and a regular at Franco-African conferences...
...fore," and pledging that as president he would work through the United Nations to pursue "collective stands against aggression...
...Can't they find a Moslem to be in this important position...
...During those years, says a former senior U.S...
...So disheartening has the picture become that Senate minority leader Bob Dole quipped that "the last time I checked, the American people did not elect Boutros-Ghali to run U.S...
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...There also appears to be little doubt that Boutros-Ghali already exceeds the ambitious role played by the Swede Dag Hammarskjedd when he challenged the authority of the Security Council over the Congo crisis in the early 1960s...
...There are now some 80,000 troops deployed in more than-a dozen operations around the world, stretching from Cambodia to Somalia to El Salvador to the former Yugoslavia...
...Boutros-Ghali was jeered by hungry, war-weary residents in sub-zero temperatures during a trip to Sarajevo last winter...
...This debacle came on the heels of a bizarre episode in May, when Boutros-Ghali blocked Chinese dissident Shen Tong from appearing at U.N...
...To meet the spiraling demands of member states and his own seemingly boundless agenda (Ethiopia, Zaire, Liberia, and Sudan are among those rumored next in line for U.N...
...Candidate Clinton had provided context for the Tarnoff Doctrine, intoning that "multilateral action [held] promise as never beGhali can take credit for, though, is a vision of primacy for the United Nations in international affairs...
...E nter Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the 71-year-old Egyptian diplomat elected secretary-general of the United Nations in November 1991, who has become a perfect fit for the Clinton foreign policy team...
...However, Morton Halperin, who awaits Senate confirmation to head up peacekeeping at the Pentagon, has already signed on to the idea that American armed forces be assigned "to the service of the Security Council on a case-by-case basis...
...Following a year as a Fulbright scholar at Columbia University (1954-55), Boutros-Ghali began to establish himself, writing for the government's largest mass daily, Al-Ahram, in Cairo...
...Founded by Nehru, Tito, and Nasser, the movement was initially marked by potent strains of pacifism (Mahatma Gandhi's influence was prominent...
...While his predecessors usually allowed twenty minutes for the presentation of credentials from a newly arrived ambassador, Boutros-Ghali spends two...
...When the movement was organized in the mid-1950s, ostensibly to protect members from being sucked into conflicts of superpower rivalry, its mandate fit perfectly with Arab neutralism, wrote BoutrosGhali at the time...
...Those who bear the consequences don't always see it that way...
...then was a dead horse, but after the end of the Cold War the U.N...
...But his impact would have been limited if not for soulmates like Bill Clinton, who has ceded American sovereignty in crucial areas, under the banner of collective internationalism...
...Correspondents Association to speak...
...chief...
Vol. 26 • November 1993 • No. 11
