Three Limericks
Riley, Tom
THREE LIMERICKS Member of the Club? Will Bill Clinton disebver today yet another half-brother? He may, for the family's that big. I suspect Porky Pig may be one—but he's too proud to say. The...
...He has opened an office dedicated to democracy efforts at the U.N...
...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...
...in New York and sees to it that any speech he gives is adorned with rhetorical bows to "promoting democracy and protecting human rights...
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...chief would subsequently see to it that the report remained private...
...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...
...Boutros Boutros-Ghali has chosen to do things differently...
...It was the first time such a ban at the press club had been imposed...
...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...
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...We'll leave that part Put...
...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...
...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, "EastWest rapprochement . . . [must] not take place at the expense of the Third World...
...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...
...Still, his haircuts, no doubt, must employ, at high wages, whole states...
...Boutros-Ghali likes to boast of his own democratic credentials, to be sure...
...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...
...t' s in the Third World, of course, especially Africa, that Boutros-Ghali's primary interests lie...
...Tom Riley U.N...
...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...
...Even so, he is probably "more interested in collective rights than individual rights," concedes one sympathetic American human rights expert...
...Future invitations to "objectionable people" would require prior approval by his department, the assistant added...
...Correspondents Association to speak...
...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...
...The U.N...
...He apparently accepts the assertion that Western industrialized nations are responsible for Third World poverty and economic backwardness...
...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...
...The secretary-general ordered the room locked where Shen was scheduled to speak and posted guards outside...
...When he goes put on datesOops...
...So let's make a deal: I'll inflict new taxation, you'll display resignation-and the pain that I cause you, feel...
...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...
...The Clinton Touch When he brushes his teeth, he creates countless jobs...
...Nasser viewed aid as a moral "tax" to be levied on the West...
...also barred certain organizations from holding press conferences on U.N...
...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...
...A New World Order, it seems, demands an array of new world rules...
...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...
...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...
...I Feel Your Pa It is something I cannot conceal, my compassion...
...chief's bias—against him and in favor of his rival Mohammed Ali Mandi—stems from Boutros-Ghali's time as deputy prime minister...
Vol. 26 • November 1993 • No. 11
