Word: thant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Secretary-General U Thant appealed to Hanoi to refrain from escalating the war by staging the trials...
...just like the Alamo." And he records some presidential double-edged scorn: Handing the Dominican government back to Juan Bosch, said Johnson, "would be like turning it over to Arthur Schlesinger Jr." Geyelin alludes to Johnson's scorching private appraisals of De Gaulle, Pearson, Shastri, Ayub Khan, U Thant. He is more explicit about the President's sentiments toward the Organization of American States; using dashes in place of a four-letter word, Geyelin quotes L.B.J. as saying, "The OAS couldn't pour - - out of a boot if instructions were written on the heel...
...Secretary-General U Thant was predictably pious (and for a neutral official, inappropriately political), expressing "deep regret" over the bombing of "heavily populated areas" and plugging his pet pipedream that by halting the air strikes the U.S. could end the war. The Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano viewed with concern, fretting that "news such as this cannot be learned without regret and also without worries." Charles de Gaulle, to nobody's surprise, joined his Moscow hosts in an expression of "alarm" and a warning of the "increasing instability" in Southeast Asia,which-he forbore to note...
Four awards went to Vice President Hubert Humphrey (Michigan State, Minnesota, Temple, Huron); U.N. Secretary General U Thant (Fordham, Windsor, Manhattan, Hamilton); U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Arthur Goldberg (N.Y.U., Brandeis, Catholic University of America, College of Jewish Studies); New York Education Commissioner James E. Allen Jr. (N.Y.U., Yale, West Virginia, Pace); and former U.S. Education Commissioner Francis Keppel (Brandeis, Carnegie Tech., Clark, Providence). Last week's honorees...
...Thant, LL.D., Secretary-General of the United Nations...