NEWS VERSE

The UN's budget crisis must have escalated, when, to stop its coffers going bust, they're sacking one in ten.

The UN's budget crisis must have escalated, when, to stop its coffers going bust, they're sacking one in ten.

Solution? Member states could aid by paying what they owe, and no doubt savings should be made, since cash reserves are low.

In this domain, who'd gainsay that, as Boutros Boutros girds himself to trim unneeded fat, the place to start is words?

Just think of those translation teams, the floppy disks support, the photocopies (tons, not reams), the meetings, notes, reports.

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To stop this waste, why don't the UN

decision makers shed the present staff entirely, then hire Trappist monks instead?