Volume 46, Number 13 · August 12, 1999
The Making of a Scapegoat
By Brian Urquhart
Unvanquished: A US-UN Saga
by Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Random House, 352 pp., $29.95
It is often said, more or less rhetorically, that the UN needs a secretary-general who will provide strong and independent leadership. In fact, nothing could be further from the wishes of most governments, and especially the five permanent members who control the UN Security Council. In recent years, of those permanent members none has been more averse to the idea of an independent secretary-general than the United States.
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