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- <text id=93TT2359>
- <title>
- Feb. 01, 1993: No.2 for Dr. WHO
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 01, 1993 Clinton's First Blunder
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- WORLD, Page 19
- No.2 for Dr. WHO
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Despite opposition from the U.S. and Europe, Nakajima wins a
- second term
- </p>
- <p> Take two aspirin and call again in 1998. That in effect was
- the Rx prescribed for detractors by pharmacologist Hiroshi
- Nakajima as he vowed to strive for "harmony" during a second
- five-year term as director-general of the World Health
- Organization. His task appears daunting. In an atmosphere of
- distinct bureaucratic disharmony, Nakajima, 64, emerged
- victorious from an 18-13 vote of the executive board of WHO, an
- arm of the U.N., thanks largely to Third World support--and
- despite a determined campaign waged against him by the U.S. and
- the European Community.
- </p>
- <p> The WHO disburses a biennial budget of $1.7 billion on
- programs ranging from malaria inoculations to AIDS prevention.
- Nakajima, his critics charge, has run it in an autocratic
- manner, but Japan made his reappointment a matter of national
- pride and applied inordinate pressure to secure it. In May,
- Nakajima must still win approval, usually pro forma, from the
- organization's 168-nation assembly.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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