October 16, 1993

The world's No. 1 peacemaker is spending much of his time making peace with Washington. It is a task that does not come easily to the United Nations Secretary General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali. In a series of interviews over several months, the 71-year-old Egyptian lawyer-turned-diplomat has revealed himself as a man with no stomach for taking orders, no tolerance for fools, no patience for protocol, no reverence for tradition.

Michael Milken is back from prison and forever barred from the Wall Street world of high-risk financing where he fell from reigning master to disgraced convict. But the tattered mogul hardly seems east of Eden these days as he buoyantly teaches his weekly class of young M.B.A. candidates much, if not all, that he has learned. "Can you suggest when you'd use the zero-coupon bond?" he asks, endlessly animated as he moves about the classroom of 57 students who seek to enter that chastened world now forbidden to him. They sit raptly, knowing they are being taught by a man of fabulous wealth and considerable resiliency, a man who chuckles at academic business notions and stands as the epitome of real-world experience, 22 months of prison time for securities fraud included. Worshipful Undergraduates Across the corridor from his class here at the University of California at Los Angeles, an overflow crowd of worshipful undergraduates, a few commuting for the night from distant campuses, audit the master's lessons. They watch the television screen as if it were a futuristic stock ticker.

The Pentagon today censured three admirals and took milder administrative action against 30 other senior officers, including Adm. Frank B. Kelso 2d, the Chief of Naval Operations, holding them responsible for the atmosphere of debauchery at the Tailhook Association convention. In announcing his judgment on the performance of 35 admirals and Marine generals -- all present at the convention -- Navy Secretary John H. Dalton described a failure of leadership. Because of that, he said, he reserved the severest actions for the three naval officers most closely involved in planning and running the convention of Navy aviators in 1991 at a hotel in Las Vegas, Nev., during which scores of women were sexually assaulted.

President Clinton ordered six American warships into the waters off Haiti today with instructions to stop and board any ships that appeared to be violating the reimposed United Nations embargo on the turbulent nation. The President also dispatched a reinforced Marine company to the nearby Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, and Administration officials said they expected ships from Canada, France and Argentina to join the naval cordon.

Nelson Mandela and President F. W. de Klerk today shared the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the end of the apartheid state and collaborating in the quest for a nonracial democracy. The Nobel Committee said Mr. de Klerk and Mr. Mandela, almost universally regarded as the last white President and the first black President of South Africa, had displayed "personal integrity and great political courage" in finding a middle ground in the bitterly polarized politics of South Africa.