Word: thant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Syrians a lesson. "How many 18-year-old Cohens have to be killed before the government activates our legitimate right to national self-defense?" cried Knesset Opposition Leader Menahem Beigin about a youth killed by a Syrian mine. Both Israel and Syria last week accepted U.N. Secretary-General U Thant's plea for talks on farming rights within the demilitarized zone, but the Israelis are skeptical. They believe that Syria is intent only on challenging Israel's territorial rights...
...possible gains. The most vocal critics of U.S. policy answer no, but for various reasons. Scarcely anyone argues that a favorable outcome in Viet Nam is essential to American survival. On the other hand, few would agree with the position at the opposite extreme-taken by U Thant, among others-that Viet Nam is completely unimportant to U.S. interests. Chicago Professor Hans Morgenthau, a strong critic of U.S. participation in Viet Nam, defines that what is moral is what is dictated by "the national interest, rightly understood." The essence of the debate is about a right understanding of the national...
...very much strengthened in this view by the events of the last few days, particularly U Thant's growing conviction that the cessation of bombing is the necessary key to the opening of peace talks," the letter said...
United Nations Secretary-General U Thant caused a fresh flurry of speculation when the New York Times reported that he had come up with "hard facts of a positive response from North Viet Nam" should the U.S. end the bombing. If so, that was news to the White House. "I know of no response from any source," said Press Secretary Bill Moyers in rare bureaucratese, "that indicates a willingness on the part of North Viet Nam to respect the reciprocity aspect of that proposition"-meaning that Hanoi has not once proposed to cut back its own war effort...
Quid pro Nil. It was difficult not to conclude that Hanoi's aim is to induce Washington to end bombing of the North on a quid pro nil basis. Thant has already urged the U.S. to "show an enlightened and humanitarian spirit" by calling off the raids, "even without conditions," and the pressure from European capitals is intense. Said a U.S. official: "If Ho Chi Minh announces that his representatives are on their way to Geneva to meet with us, the pressure to stop bombing would be tremendous and perhaps irresistible." The Administration nonetheless is bent on resisting that...