Word: thant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happened on Monday -- and it really wasn't much to talk about. Seven waves of U.S. jets pounded a fuel storage depot near Hanoi, and Ambassador to the U.N. Arthur Goldberg promised U.N. Secretary-General U Thant that America would cooperate with United Nations efforts to arrange a cease-fire in Vietnam. Blabber incoherently and swing a big stick -- that's the futile game...
...President Johnson, U Thant and Ho Chi Minh. Each for different reasons. I. S. MENON, M.D. Royal Victoria Infirmary Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
...support U Thant's three points for ending the Vietnam...
...hinting that he might in the future have a few additional powers, and there was an indication that the tightfisted Russians might come through with $7,000,000 to help the U.N. pay some of its bills. But most of the same old problems were still there. As U Thant himself told the Assembly in accepting the appointment, there was no reason for him "to have new hope" that his second term would be much smoother than his first. The main factor in his decision to stay on, in fact, was simply that the U.N. had pleaded with...
...great Troika crisis that nearly destroyed the U.N. the last time it had to look for a new Secretary-General, none of the organization's members wanted to go through the traumatic process of searching for a replacement. Besides, despite the futility of his first term, U Thant had impressed the great powers that he was an honest, if bland, broker for the conflicts of the world...