"The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence."

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People from CairoSecretaries-General of the United NationsDiplomats of Egypt
Original Language: English

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Statement of 1993, as quoted in The Coming Plague : Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (1995) by Laurie Garrett, p. 592, and in Preventive Diplomacy : Stopping Wars before they Start (1996) by Kevin M. Cahill, p. 254