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UN getting sexy in new TV series Wed Sep 8, 3:41 PM ET UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - Move over, "Sex in the City." Miramax Television has signed on to develop a television series based on "Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures," a tell-all memoir by three staffers who worked on UN peacekeeping missions in the 1990s. The book stoked controversy at the normally staid world body when it was published in June against the wishes of senior UN officials who feared it sullied the image of the United Nations (news - web sites). The authors -- UN staffers Andrew Thomson...

UNITED NATIONS - United Nations officials are quaking over revelations made in a just released book about the world body that details wild sex and drug parties on peackeeping mission. As first revealed by NewsMax, the book, "Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures" (Miramax Books), by Ken Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thomson -- all current or former U.N. employees -- has the potential of being a major embarrassment for Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The U.N. desperately tried to stop the publication of the book -- even threatening two of the authors with possible dismissal. Since NewsMax exclusively revealed excerpts of...

UNITED NATIONS - United Nations officials are quaking over revelations made in a just released book about the world body that details wild sex and drug parties on peackeeping mission. As first revealed by NewsMax, the book, "Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures" (Miramax Books), by Ken Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thomson -- all current or former U.N. employees -- has the potential of being a major embarrassment for Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The U.N. desperately tried to stop the publication of the book -- even threatening two of the authors with possible dismissal. Since NewsMax exclusively revealed excerpts of...

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The authors of a controversial new book filled with stories of wild parties, drinking binges and sex scandals say it's a veritable account of life working for the United Nations. Despite efforts by the U.N. to block it, three field workers are publishing "Emergency Sex & Other Desperate Measures: A True Story From Hell on Earth." The book talks of sex fueled by fear -- or boredom -- and that is what the authors call emergency sex. "Frankly we found it a sensational & selective account of peacekeeping," U.N. Secretary General spokesman Fred Eckhard says. U.N....

June 1, 2004 -- Three United Nations fieldworkers are publishing details of sex, drugs and corruption inside U.N. missions - despite an attempt by the world body to block their book. "Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures: A True Story from Hell on Earth" chronicles the experiences of a doctor, a human-rights official and a secretary in U.N. operations in Cambodia, Somalia, Haiti, Rwanda, Liberia and Bosnia. The controversial volume, due out next week, charges that some U.N. officials demanded that 15 percent of their local staff's salaries go directly to them instead; that Bulgaria sent freed criminals to serve...

NEW YORK -- A book by three current and former U.N. employees about peacekeeping operations portrays wild parties with alcohol and drugs, and convicts and mental-asylum inmates passing as soldiers. Embarrassed U.N. officials have threatened firing or other disciplinary action against two of the authors, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thomson. U.N. rules bar employees from writing about their work without approval, which had been denied in this case. The third author, former U.N. employee Kenneth Cain, works full time as a writer. The book, "Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Matters," covers the authors' experiences during the mid-1990s in Cambodia, Somalia...

Industry sources tell NewsMax's Stew Stogel that excerpt rights to the controversial book by three U.N. employees, "Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures," (Miramax Books) due for release on June 9, has been obtained by GQ (Gentlemen's Quarterly) magazine. The move by Miramax is a prelude to a public relations tour by the authors at the end of the month to promote the book. Two of the three authors are current United Nations employees. U.N. staff rules prohibit outside activity by any United Nations employees related to their professional duties without specific approval by executives of the world body. In...

UN threatens 'sex and sleaze' authors The United Nations has threatened to fire two officials who wrote an expose of sleaze and corruption during its peacekeeping missions of the 1990s. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is believed to have favoured an attempt to block publication of the memoir, Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures, a True Story from Hell on Earth, due to be published next month. Still reeling from the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal, UN officials are alarmed by the promised revelations of wild sex parties, petty corruption and drug use - diversions that helped peacekeepers cope with alternating states of...

UNITED NATIONS - As U.N. officials scurry to stop publication of "Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Matters" (Miramax Books) by Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thomson the book’s galleys have already hit the street. NewsMax recently reviewed the galleys. While the book centers on the "interpersonal" relationships of the three U.N. peacekeeping employees as they traverse from one hot spot where U.N. peacekeeping operations were underway, the trio details exactly how U.N. operations work. The picture is not a flattering one. The book starts with the 1993 United Nations in Cambodia. There, U.N. personnel are sent to help supervise...

UN threatens authors of 'racy' exposé By Charles Laurence in New York (Filed: 02/05/2004) The United Nations has threatened to fire two officials who wrote an expose of sleaze and corruption during its peacekeeping missions of the 1990s. Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary-General, is understood to have favoured an attempt to block publication of the memoir, Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures, a True Story from Hell on Earth, due to be published next month. Still reeling from the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal, officials in the upper echelons of the UN are alarmed by the promised revelations of wild sex parties,...

U.N. officials, including General Secretary Kofi Annan, are so afraid of a new book detailing stories of U.N. sex scandals and drug parties, they have threatened the authors with termination if the book ever gets published. Already, the book, "Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Matters" (Miramax Books) by Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thomson -- two current and one former employee of the U.N.'s peacekeeping operations -- has provoked a storm of controversy inside the world body. Now two of the authors could be out of job if U.N. censors have their way. NewsMax first reported on the scandal...