Boutros-Ghali gets $500,000 to write a book

January 17, 1997
Web posted at: 11:20 p.m. EST (0420 GMT)

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Former United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has signed a book contract with Random House worth $500,0000 dollars, CNN has learned.

The book will give Boutros-Ghali's version of the Clinton Administration's international campaign to block the secretary-general's re-election. Ghali's book will be especially critical of Secretary of State-nominee Madeline Albright, a source familiar with the book proposal told CNN.

As U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Albright orchestrated the campaign against Boutros-Ghali.

Among the revelations in the book will be descriptions of a secret meeting between Sen. Jesse Helms and Boutros Ghali, the source said. The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Helms is a staunch critic of both the U.N. and Boutros-Ghali.

Writing the book with Boutros-Ghali will be Yale professor Charles Hill, who was a long-time advisor to former Secretary of State George Shultz.

 

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