Word: thant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Emphasizing that the steps must be "tangible and unequivocal," the students suggest acceptance of U.N. Secretary General U Thant's proposals as the "most effective way" to demonstrate good faith...
...letter points out that stopping U.S. bombing and recognizing the National Liberation Front, as U Thant suggested, would not necessarily remove the obstacles to negotiations. "What we mean," explained Craig, "is that stopping the bombing won't be enough, if we continue to mine rivers at the same time...
Clearly, the mood on both sides has toughened. Even United Nations Secretary General U Thant's meeting in his native Burma with a North Vietnamese delegation failed to spark any hope that the men from Hanoi had anything besides propaganda to offer. In Washington, the feeling has grown that Hanoi has been given plenty of chances to talk-and has repeatedly scorned them. "We leave the door open," said a Pentagon official, "and it's only slammed in our face." The President, accordingly, seems to have concluded that more military pressure against the North offers the only hope...
...question that arises is whether Goldberg duped himself. Contrary to the mawkish speech President Johnson delivered when he announced Goldberg's appointment, indications are that the Ambassador has not joined the White House inner council on Vietnam. Goldberg, for all his praise of Secretary--General U Thant--and he probably means it--has been unable to make Johnson's policy comprehensible to Thant, or Thant's view-point comprehensible to Johnson...
...Poland's Jerzy Michalkowski, a foreign-office troubleshooter who has been in Hanoi and is also closely in touch with U.S. diplomacy, is now in the Algerian capital. Rangoon is still another possibility, particularly since U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Arthur Goldberg and U.N. Secretary-General U Thant are scheduled to be there at the same time late this month. Goldberg plans to visit Rangoon during a tour of a dozen European and Asian nations, and while he insists that his trip is not "a peace mission," few who are familiar with his negotiating prowess would be surprised...