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Leontief served as one of the experts chosen by the late U.N. Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjold, to study "the consequences of disarmament in countries with different economic systems and at different stages of economic development." The U.N. conference, which met in New York for four weeks beginning Jan. 16, included representatives from East, West and the neutralist bloc...
When the U.N.'s 16th General Assembly opened last fall, it seemed headed for disaster. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was dead, and in sight of his empty chair on the Assembly podium, the Russians fought week after week to destroy the post he had occupied. Then came the savage Katanga war, in which U.N. forces fought to put down Moise Tshombe's rebellion against the Congo's central government-a conflict in which many felt that the U.N. had no business taking part. Many of the new Afro-Asian nations, which now made up nearly half...
...last week, as Tunisia's Mongi Slim rapped his olive-wood presidential gavel to adjourn the Assembly, the U.N. was probably in better shape than at any time since Hammarskjold's best days. Russia had scored virtually no gains in the Assembly, suffered some severe defeats. Most notable was Moscow's failure to seat Red China as a U.N. member and to impose its troika scheme for a three-man U.N. executive, which would have paralyzed the world body's operations...
Strategic Planning. Throughout the session, Burma's U Thant, the man who finally was chosen to take over Hammarskjold's vacant post, performed his difficult task admirably. In the Congo crisis, he was tough and fast on his feet; his quiet diplomacy helped get Indonesia and The Netherlands to agree to negotiate the West New Guinea dispute. Along with respected President Slim, U Thant kept the Assembly serious and businesslike; in many ways, delegates found him more decisive than...
...only Administration official who regularly attends Cabinet meetings, National Security Council sessions, the weekly White House conference with legislative leaders and the briefings before presidential press conferences. He has acted as the President's personal representative on missions to Africa, to Southeast Asia, to Sweden for Dag Hammarskjold's funeral, and to Berlin just after the East Germans threw up the Wall...