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<text id=93TT1166>
<title>
Mar. 15, 1993: Parting Shots
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Mar. 15, 1993 In the Name of God
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 19
WORLD
Parting Shots
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<body>
<p>The top American blows the whistle on U.N. fat and favors
</p>
<p> Dick Thornburgh, the top-ranking American official in the
U.N. Secretariat, wrapped up a year of service with a blast at
the "deadwood, featherbedding, fraud and abuse" that permeate the
world body. The departing Under Secretary-General for Management
pulled no punches, charging that some vital agencies have become
"patronage dumping grounds" and that the budgeting process is
"almost surreal." Further angering Secretary-General Boutros
Boutros-Ghali by going public with his mince-no-words report and
then repeating his charges before a U.S. congressional
committee, Thornburgh, a former Attorney General, warns that
antireform forces are defeating efforts to make the U.N. more
efficient. Computerization could save $20 million in
translations alone.
</p>
<p> Thornburgh called for an independent inspector general to
stanch millions of dollars of waste generated annually by the
U.N. Even then it won't be easy to cut through 48 years of
padding.
</p>
</body>
</article>
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