During the little time I had spent with Charles and Diana, I liked them both and wished that life had dealt them a different hand. On the thirteenth, the UN Security Council, with the strong support of the United States, selected a new secretary-general, Kofi Annan of Ghana. The Superfund was a public/private partnership to clean up polluted sites that had been abandoned and had become ugly, unusable health hazards. A strong international force, commanded by NATO, would supervise the separation of forces and keep the peace as the agreement was being implemented.
Before the Voting Rights Act, there were only 300 black elected officials at any level, and just three African-American congressmen. It was a hard deal, but if they wanted peace, I thought it was fair to both sides. On February 23, UN Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali agreed with me on an emergency plan to airdrop humanitarian supplies to the Bosnians. And the second time the government shut down, he continued helping Social Security recipients, but he was working without pay.
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