Word: thant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...share of the vast concession fees of Ka tanga's Belgian and British-controlled copper and cobalt riches. As U.S. Under Secretary of State George McGhee conferred patiently in Elisabethville, hoping to convince Tshombe that Katanga must return to the Congo fold, U.N. Acting Secretary-General U Thant published a U.N. report from Leopoldville which charged that Tshombe was beefing up his stout little army with additional white hirelings, had even added more than a dozen airplanes to his tiny air force...
...apparent that the scientists who advised the executive branch on this matter were those associated with the military, that is, with the very men who originated the idea. Such advice can hardly be considered disinterested; indeed, Secretary General U Thant in a speech made before the explosion spoke of the many scientists who condemned the test as men "with no axe to grind." The implication was obvious...
Controversy is also expected over the election of a new Secretary General. Logical candidate for the job is Burma's taciturn U Thant, who is serving out the unexpired portion of Dag Hammarskjold's term. Backed solidly by the Asian bloc, Thant is also assured of U.S. support; although he is a neutralist, the U.S. cannot hope to get a much more pro-Western man in the present U.N. But the Soviet Union and its satellite delegations have indicated that they will wage another campaign in favor of the troika, a three-headed (one Western, one neutral...
...Elisabethville's Prince Leopold Hospital, led them into the mortuary and pointed a well-manicured finger at the bodies of two Katangese gendarmes. He claimed that they had been slain by 500 U.N. troops who attacked a Katanga roadblock. Bellowed Tshombe: "I do not believe in U Thant's good faith any longer, nor in the Western nations who guaranteed U Thant's plan." For Propaganda. Infuriated U.N. officials in Leopoldville accused Tshombe of deliberately staging the clash by ordering 100 Katanga gendarmes to encircle and attack a Jeep-borne patrol of 20-not 500-Gurkha troops...
...those who had been through the whole weary plot before, it seemed that Tshombe's stall was on, and Thant's plan off. Or was it? Over the bodies of the two dead gendarmes, Tshombe thundered: "If the United Nations wants war, they can have it. It won't be child's play." Then, unpredictable as ever, he took to the air with a curiously conciliatory statement. "We have found a number of points in common with our Congolese friends," said Tshombe. "We may be near a definite solution of the Congo crisis...