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- <text id=93TT1166>
- <title>
- Mar. 15, 1993: Parting Shots
- </title>
- <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
- </hdr>
- <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>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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