Word: thant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Noronha was not the only one who was relieved that Tshombe was sticking to his promise to reintegrate Katanga with the rest of the Congo. At U.N. headquarters in Manhattan, Secretary-General U Thant could now turn to a problem that might turn out to be even tougher than ending Tshombe's secession. It was to establish the Congolese Central Government's authority over all the Congo and end the anarchy that still reigns in much of the nation...
...Wise Act." But this time Tshombe had little choice. Blue-helmeted U.N. troops controlled nearly all the major rail and population centers of Katanga province, and U.N. Secretary-General U Thant was not backing down on his threat to crush Katanga's wily secessionist...
...appeal, in a letter sent to Secretary-General U Thant, claimed that the ruling of the tribunal violated "the Charter of the U.N., the Declaration of Human Rights, and the United Nations Genocide Convention...
Weapons Afloat. Alarmed at the prospect of damage to mine installations in which both Britain and Belgium had heavy investments, British U.N. Ambassador Sir Patrick Dean and Belgium's Walter Loridan demanded assurances from Thant that the U.N. forces would go no farther. Thant assured them that they had halted at the Lufira River. That was correct, up to a point. With three bridges down, the Indians stopped at the Lufira all right, but only long enough to rig ropes and pulleys to a swimming float and ferry 120-mm. mortars, recoilless rifles and Jeeps across the stream. Noronha...
Things were going less smoothly back at U.N. headquarters in Manhattan. Convinced that Thant had deceived them about Jadotville, Belgian and British diplomats wanted to know what had happened. Thant intimated that his aides in the Congo had exceeded their orders. "There occurred a serious breakdown," a spokesman said, "in effective communication and coordination between the U.N. headquarters and the Leopoldville office.'' Off to Leopoldville "to determine the cause of this lapse and to ensure it will not recur" flew U.N. Under Secretary Ralph Bunche. But once there, Bunche announced that the U.N. still wanted "freedom of movement...