Going out with a whisper
Dec 28th, 2006 | By admin | Category: Personal Columns“Who was the Secretary General after Waldheim?”
“I don’t know”.
“You do. You must do. Don’t you remember? Thatcher and the Falklands, who was at the UN then?”
“I don’t know.”
Finally, I had to resort to Google for the answer as to who was Secretary General of the United Nations in 1982. Not that it had anything to do with the conversation anyway, which had been about Kofi Annan who retires next Sunday.
31st December is a bad time to leave a job. No-one notices you have gone. Half …