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...coincidence that among TIME's 20 most influential leaders and revolutionaries of this century, six are Americans and half are English speakers? Should we believe that English-speaking countries naturally produce more influential leaders than, say, French- or Spanish-speaking nations? Did cultural bias influence your selection? REHA KESKINTEPE Geneva...
What if we'd had automatic rifles? Would we have used them? Our violent imaginations were in business for themselves, loose in the wildwood. We had not signed the Geneva convention. We did not desire blood, but we had not thought the play through to consequence; our fun lay in a kind of self-obliterating game of action and in the glee of power...
...lives. It is easy to say afterward that Diana should have been sent to the hospital right away. But when a team arrives on the scene, it is impossible in most cases to tell immediately which is the best solution. The French approach is a reasonable one. ANDRE ORBAN Geneva...
...career at the U.N. began humbly in 1962 as an administrative and budget officer at the World Health Organization in Geneva. By 1993 he had worked his way through several finance and management positions to a coveted slot, Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations. In that office he oversaw 80,000 troops in 17 military operations. But his real entrance onto the world diplomatic stage came in August 1995, when he agreed to the launching of massive NATO air strikes against the Bosnian Serbs, a policy Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali adamantly opposed. The decision won Annan the admiration...
...first interview we did with Mikhail Gorbachev, prior to the Geneva summit in 1985, was the first he gave to an American news organization--and contained some important signals. Henry Grunwald, TIME's editor-in-chief, received the call indicating that Gorbachev had agreed to a meeting. Grunwald, managing editor Ray Cave and I [as chief of correspondents] flew by Concorde to Paris and then on to Moscow. When we saw Gorbachev the next day, in the preliminary chitchat, he said, "What was Aeroflot like? I need to know...