'Emergency Sex' Authors Fear Firing, Blast U.N. 
Stewart Stogel, NewsMax.com
Tuesday, July 13, 2004 

New York -- The authors of a controversial book about their lives working at the United Nations are afraid of being fired. 

I am fearful and do expect to be fired, explained Heidi Postlewait in an interview with the Japanese television network NTV (Nippon TV), which aired last week. 
Postlewait, Dr. Andy Thomson - both current U.N. employees - and former U.N. staffer Ken Cain wrote a book entitled Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures which went on sale nationwide June 9. 
The book, a compilation of vividly detailed memoirs of waste and corruption in the U.N.'s peacekeeping field operations, has been a source of controversy inside U.N. headquarters. 
The book details accounts of sex and drug parties in which U.N. officials participated. 
Annan's Failings 
The authors also challenge U.N. Sec General Kofi Annan on the allegation that Annan personally suppressed the famous 'Dallaire Fax' warning of an impending massacre in the African nation of Rwanda. 
At the time, Annan was head of the U.N.'s Peacekeeping forces. 
The general in command in Rwanda, a man named Dallaire, faxed Annan asking for more troops to keep the Hutus in check. 
Annan's then inexplicably withdraw half Dallaire's garrison, and the mass slaughter of Tutsis started almost immediately. 
Almost 800,000 Rwandans died in the civil war. 
In April 2000 the U.N. Security Council admitted responsibility for failing to stop the Rwandan genocide. 
U.N. Now Suppressing Authors 
The clash between the authors and U.N. management, has been the subject of reports by CNN, Fox News, the Canadian Broadcasting Company, The New York Times, as well as Nippon TV. 
NewsMax first broke the story about the book on May 1, 2004. 
Under U.N. staff rules, any employee engaging in outside money making activities must seek and receive approval from their supervisors. 
The U.N. has complained that the authors never sought approval until after the book's manuscript was purchased by Miramax. 
When they asked for approval, the U.N. denied it. 
Since then, it has been a game of cat and mouse between the United Nations and the authors. 
Open and Shut, and Open ... 
Other than a letter of reprimand, we have heard nothing from the U.N., Postlewait told NTV's Noon News. 
A senior adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who insisted on anonymity, told NewsMax that it was against U.N. policy to discuss personnel matters taken or contemplated. 
The official refused repeated opportunities to state that no further action would be taken against the authors. 
Just last week, the U.N. hinted the matter was closed, now it appears they have again changed their minds. 
Under staff rules, the U.N. could move against the authors at any time, there are no time limits. 
Senior U.N. officials have branded the authors as liars. 
One official in the Office of Human Resources Management (OHRM) headed by Catherine Bertini (U.S.) has told NewsMax, they (the authors) can expect to be fired. 
More Corruption Revealed 
We simply write the truth, we wrote what we saw, and this is what they do to us, Andy Thomson told NTV. 
U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard told NewsMax that he believes two more unauthorized books are current being written. 
It is unclear what if any action the U.N. might take to prevent those books from being published. 
In the NTV broadcast, the three authors went on to call the U.N.'s executive management corrupt. 
Ten billion dollars is missing, ten billion dollars is missing and nobody seems to know where it went. What does that tell you? asked Ken Cain. 
Cain was referring to the ongoing investigation into the defunct U.N. Iraq Oil for Food Program where the General Accounting Office believes as much as $10 bil. may have been skimmed. 
Thomson was even stronger: 
They (the U.N.) have still yet to explain the massacres in Rwanda and Burundi. Over 800, 000 people were slaughtered and not one person has come forward to say I made a mistake and take responsibility ... ten years later. 
Th Emergency Sex book appears to have worried the staff of Kofi Annan, already under fire for his handling of the Oil for Food program. 
Annan's current and final (5 year) term as the U.N.'s chief executive expires January 1, 2007.