Word: thant
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That was too much for King Freddy. Declaring that the new constitution was nothing less than an act of secession from Uganda, he ordered Obote and his regime to leave Kampala, appealed to Secretary-General U Thant for United Nations intervention to avert "calamity at the eleventh hour." Obote immediately accused the King of high treason, surrounded the palace with troops. Then from the top of Mengo Hill came a sound seldom heard: the deep, buckskin thump of the royal war drums summoning Buganda's 2,000,000 subjects to rise to defend their King...
...turned loose, the prospect is staggering. All of them, of course, soon apply for membership in the United Nations, where their equal voting power with such big nations as the U.S. and Russia has caused a whole new set of problems. This incongruous situation has moved Secretary-General U Thant to suggest that perhaps the U.N. might want to reconsider its criteria for admission in view of what he tactfully called "the recent phenomenon of the emergence of exceptionally small new states." Former U.N. official and Columbia University Dean Andrew Cordier puts it much more bluntly: "The concept of nationhood...
Born. To Aye Aye Mynt U, 26, daughter of U.N. Secretary General U Thant, and Tin Mynt U, 29, Manhattan College assistant professor of math: a son, U Thant's first grandchild; in Manhattan...
Tall Order. All the same, the Administration did not lack critics. One of the more oblique was U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, who suavely implied that Washington might make a major concession to Hanoi by guaranteeing the Viet Cong representation in the postwar government of South Viet Nam. "If the parties were to make concrete proposals on this issue," said Thant, "I think a refusal to negotiate would be difficult to justify." That was a pretty tall order, considering that the U.S. has refused to negotiate directly with the Viet Cong on the grounds that the war is being directed...
...Thant, for his eloquent peace talks in Kashmir, for his attempts for open talks in Viet Nam, for being the perfect international servant, stressing peace through understanding. EIRIK FORGENSUR