The U.N. secretary
general won’t withdraw
his candidacy.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The
United States vetoed Boutros Boutros
Ghali for re-election as U.N. secretary
general in a 14-1 vote today in the Se
curity Counc.il.
Boutros-Ghali refused to withdraw
his candidacy despite the veto, setting
the stage for a protracted battle in
which the United States has so far
found itself diplomatically isolated.
“This is just the opening round,”
U.N. representative Sylvana Foa said.
“He’s in it until the Security Council
makes a final decision.”
The Clinton administration of
fended many key allies in June when it
announced it would veto the re-elec
tion of the 74-year-old Egyptian dip
lomat. Senior U.S. officials say replac
ing Boutros-Ghali is the only way to
persuade the Republican-controlled
Congress to pay the $1.5 billion that
the United States owes the organiza
tion.
Africans have insisted that their
continent deserves two terms of repre
sentation in the post, as has been U.N.
tradition. Ten of the 15 council mem
bers co-sponsored a resolution calling
for Boutros-Ghali’s re-election.
Foa quoted Boutros-Ghali as say
ing he was “gratified and really appre
ciates the overwhelming support
shown by the member states of the
United Nations.”
Foa said a 14-1 show of support “is
rather conclusive” in a democratic pro
cess, but added: “This is obviously not
a democratic process.”
Without mentioning the United
States, she said the strong support
shown Boutros-Ghali should be noted
by “member states.”
U.S. Ambassador Madeleine
Albright told the 14 other council
members Monday that she had written
instructions to veto Boutros-Ghali, say
ing he has lost the confidence of Con
gress.
Albright urged African diplomats
to come up with an alternate to
Boutros-Ghali.
“We have stated over and over
again we will give special preference
to an African candidate, but it’s impor
tant for them to come forward with an
African candidate,” she said.
Ambassador Alfredo Lopes Cabral
of Guinea-Bissau said the Africans
were standing behind Boutros-Ghali
“with all (due) respect for the decision
of (me country,” meaning the United
States.
“We are very pleased with the re
sults,” Egyptian Ambassador Nabil
Elaraby told reporters. “It proved that
the whole world was behind Africa and
the candidate Africa Chose, which is
the current secretary-general.”
If the United States sticks by its
opposition, the process of selecting a
new secretary-general could drag on
for weeks. The five permanent mem
bers—the United States, China, Rus
sia, France and Britain — hold veto
power in the council.
Diplomatic sources said China
could veto any candidate put forward
by the United States over objections
of the Africans. China considers itself
an advocate for Africa and other de
veloping countries.
In an effort to appease the Africans,
the United States has agreed to a se
lection formula weighted in favor of
African candidates. The formula calls
for limiting the second round of vot
ing to African candidates once
Boutros-Ghali is vetoed.
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space shuttle Columbia thun
dered into orbit Tuesday carry
ing the oldest person ever in
space, Story Musgrave, and a
pair of science satellites.
Columbia lifted off at 2:55
p.m., shooting through thin,
wispy clouds. The launch was
delayed VA minutes-because of
a slight leak of hydrogen fuel
into the engine compartment.
The calm weather was quite
a contrast to the dangerously
high wind, rain and thick, dark
clouds that prevented a launch
last week. Concerns over booster
rockets also forced a delav.
Musgrave, 61, became the
oldest person ever hi space. He
joined four much younger astro
nauts for the 16-day research
mission, which is due to wind up
Dec. 5.
NASA’s oldest shuttle, a
whopping 4,525,000 pounds at
launch, was supposed to take off
Nov. 8, but managers postponed
the flight a week so engineers
could complete an investigation
of the solid-fuel booster rockets.
The astronauts’ first job in
orbit, seven hours after liftoff,
was to release an ultraviolet tele
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Pope accepts invitation
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VAI1CAN CITY (AP) — Pope
John Paul II on Tuesday accepted Fi
del Castro’s invitation to visit Cuba
next year as the two leaders met face
to-face for the first time.
The pope has agreed to go to the
communist island off south Florida and
“the only thing missing is the date in
1997,” said papal spokesman Joaquin
Navarro-Valls. Long-term preparations
will begin shortly, he said.
Vatican officials said Castro’s gov
ernment agreed to the usual conditions
for papal trips — that the pope can
travel anywhere and meet with anyone
he wants to.
Cuba, ruled by Castro since 1959,
is the only Latin American country that
the 76-year-old pope has yet to visit.
Navarro-Valls said a Cuban stop in
October during a previously scheduled
trip to Brazil was one possibility, but
he would not rule out other dates. The
Brazil trip is the pope’s only scheduled
visit to the Western Hemisphere next
year.
Quoting Castro at the end of the 35
minute meeting,Navarro-vails said,
“'Your Holiness, I hope to see you soon
in Cuba.’”
The two leaders discussed “national
reconciliation,” which Navarro-Valls
said was not just limited to Cubans on
the island, indicating the phrase also
involved Cuban exiles in Florida.
In Miami, Ninoska Perez, a spokes
woman for the Cuban American Na
tional Foundation, said some exiles
were upset by the pope’s planned visit
to Cuba.
“It’s hot a pretty sight for the Cu
ban community in exile to see Fidel
Castro with the pope,” she said.
“On the other hand, we’re confident
the pope will be as energetic (there) as
he was in helping put an end to com
munism in eastern Europe,” she said.
Castro’s motorcade drove through
St. Peter’s Square on a damp, chilly
morning, with a machine gun poking
through die sunroof of an Italian secu
rity car. He was greeted by an honor
contingent of Swiss Guards.
Radiation test vic;_is compensated
WASHINGTON (AP)—The gov
ernment has agreed to pay $4.8 mil
lion for conducting Cold War-era ra
diation experiments on unwitting vic
tims, the Energy Department said Tues
day..
the money will go to one woman
who took part in the experiments and
the families of 11 other people who
have died.
“This settlement goes to the very
heart of the moral accountability the
government owes its citizens,” Hazel
O’Leary, secretary of energy, said. “We
Iare grateful to the families for the tough
lessons they have taught us about trust,
responsibility and accountability be
tween the government and the people.
The agreement represents the final
settlement in 12 of 18 human radiation
experiment cases involving the injec
tion of plutonium and uranium, said the
official, who spoke on condition of
anonymity. Nine of the 12 experiments
took place at the University of Roch
ester in upstate New York.
The U.S. government sponsored
thousands of human radiation experi
ments between 1944 and 1974 that in
cluded injecting 18 hospital patients in
New York, Illinois, California and Ten
nessee with plutonium. The tests
sprang from efforts to develop atomic
weapons.
Clarification
The location for Jane Elliot’s
speech on her “blue eyes/brown
eyes” experiment was not listed in
Tuesday’s Daily Nebraskan. The
speech will be at 7 p.m. at the Lied
Center for the Performing Arts.
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