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Show ee June 23, 1996 Standard-Examiner * European Union holds the upper hand in mad-cow dispute U.S., U.N. * at odds on Bosnia, israel The Associated Press FLORENCE,Italy - All the British chest-beating notwithstanding, Prime Minister John Major lost the mad cow war. Returning home Saturday from the two-day European Union summit, held in a 16th-century fortress, the British leader now faces an uphill battle to convince his country that the war was worth fighting at all. For the rest of the 15-nation European Union, it was a lesson well-learned. The The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS- Policy. differences over eastern CroGtia and Israel's shelling of a U.N. camp in south Lebanon were the last straws Second term for the U.N. Séretary-general, U.N. officials id “Western diplomats say. “fr each case, the U.N. posihreatened to cause prob“for the Clinton administraon three priorities: Middle East peace, the NATOoperation in former Yugoslavia and the budget battle with =| Congress. The U.S.offered ‘hirnia face- Saving, one-year Sxtension. when Britain and its European partners agreed on a step-by-step plan to eradicate mad cow disease in Britain and gradually procedures. Britain retaliated against an EU global lift the ban on British beef exports. ban on its beef exports by systematically vetoing all EU legislative and policy measures requiring a unanimous vote. It cast more than 100 vetoes since the But the battle left its scars. Britain always has-been the bad boy of the EU, dating back to the days of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was constantly at odds with Brussels. The risk nowis that the animosities built up since March will linger. “Itisa pity that we had to go through ban was imposed in late March, after London revealed a possible link between a phase ofdisruption of the Union’s instietutions,” said EU Commission President* Jacques Santer. “This should not have happened and it should never happen again. ... Yesierday’s result could have been achieved quickly and without political damage.” Despite London's claims that British action forced a solution, Britain won virtually no concessions. No British beef will be exported any time soon. The EU still HOMESALE| in ington’s decision to block a BOUTROS-GHALI: man malady, Creutzfeidt-Jakob disease. On Friday, a cease-fire was called need to prevent a repeat of what Germany’s foreign minister called “blackmail” may give impetus to bogged-down talks on reforming EU institutions and voting SecretaryGeneral Boutros BoutrosGhali’s fiveyear term ends Dec. 31. The i5-member Security Coun- | a fatal bovine illness commonly called mad cow disease and an equally fatal hu- will have final say on what gets exported and when. THE MORE YOU BUY, THE MORE YOU SAVE ON FURNITURE, bers ttti COVERINGS, eene &. x J sOe ; “s ijjg expected to nominate a few secretary-general in NovemBer, and the 185-member General Assembly would ratify the § shot : decording to the sources, U.S. “iiticials had long been dissatisf- déd-With the Egyptian diplomat, WhbUsucceeded Javier Perez de Guetiar of Peru. The Bush ad- J mipistration had backed former } ian Prime Minister Brian § Wulroney. > ESS. officials said the discusslons on a successor began in De- § Cémber and by March the deci- syon had been made to veto a § second term for Boutros-Ghali, § turned down a face-saving U.S:offer for a one-year exten- | ‘sidThe five permanent mem- f bets’ of the Security Council tag-United States, Russia, Brita France and China - have power. “StPhe discussions appear to § HALE begun about the time of a tMdjor public flap between the UN. and the Clinton administratron over former Yugoslavia. * NATO agreed to replace U.N. peacekeepers ii n Bosnia, but there ware still U.N. troops in eastern Siavonia, the last part of Croatia ‘eld by rebel Croatian Serbs. Washington felt it would be hard enough to win approval in the Republican Congress for the & Bosnia operation. So the United States and others involved in the NATO operation agreed eastern § Slavonia would remain in U.N. § hands. U.N. officials, angry over what they:perceived as unfair criticism of the U.N. mission in Bosnia, felt NATO should undertake the job. ‘A Decemberreport by Boutros-Ghali’s staff recommended the mission be put under NATO command. That would have played into § Reptblican charges that Clinton was putting U.S. troops in a dangerous operation full of chances § of “mission creep,” the expansion of mandate that had plagued § the U.N. operation in Somalia. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. § Madeleine Albright urged Bou- § tros‘Ghali to withdraw the report. U.N. sources said heg§ agreed, but it was released to the media anyway in what U.N. offi- § cialg say was an administrative errof. Purious, Albright called Bou- § tros-Ghali’s position “misguided and. counterproductive.” The U.N. leader in turn called Albright’s criticism a “vulgarity” and chiding the Americans for airing differences in public. 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