1996

Getting Rid of Boutros-Ghali

Getting Rid of Boutros-Ghali

Getting Rid of Boutros-Ghali

Getting Rid of Boutros-Ghali

Getting Rid of Boutros-Ghali

October 18, 1996
October 1996
Book Review

Getting Rid of Boutros-Ghali
In the 1970s, when Kurt Waldheim was Secretary-General, reporters at the United Nations used to call him The Headwaiter. "He always stood there," recalled Don Shannon, the U.N. correspondent for the Los Angeles Times in those days, "as if he were wringing his hands on a towel, asking what he could do for the powerful countries." That kind of a scene would warm the hearts of American officials these days...

Saints and Presidents: A Commentary on Julius Nyerere

Saints and Presidents: A Commentary on Julius Nyerere

Saints and Presidents: A Commentary on Julius Nyerere

Saints and Presidents: A Commentary on Julius Nyerere

Saints and Presidents: A Commentary on Julius Nyerere

December 17, 1996
December 1996
Book Review

Saints and Presidents: A Commentary on Julius Nyerere
At a Korea University conference in Seoul a few months ago, I was placed next to Julius Nyerere of Tanzania at dinner. For those of us who covered Africa more than a quarter of a century ago, Nyerere was like a saint. Incorruptible, frank, good-humored, intellectual, he could charm the most suspicious and doubtful questioners into following the flow of his logic as he expounded the need in Africa for socialism, one-party democracy, self-reliance, non-alignment...