Word: thant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jones industrial average spurted 11.91 points before receding during an 18 million-share day. In Washington, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield cried: "Excellent, excellent! The ice jam has been broken." "This is the best news I have heard for a long time," said U.N. Secretary-General U Thant...
...long since had all the perquisites and puissance of a full-fledged ambassador. It was Bo who in January raised peace hopes by saying talks "will" come (instead of "could") once the U.S. stopped bombing the North. Nothing came of it then, although the United Nations' U Thant scurried to Bo's door...
Some have denounced the anniversary events, fearing that they will create added tension. For Israel to go through with the parade, said U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, "could well have an adverse effect" on peace efforts in the Middle East. But the government of Premier Levi Eshkol sees the parade as a means of keeping alive the patriotic fervor of last summer. Most of the people approach the anniversary in a mood of elation and with a new sense of security born of their enlarged borders. But they also seem to suffer anxiety over the fact that nothing has really...
...delay talks. Privately, U.S. officials have come to doubt that the North Vietnamese will accept any place on earth first suggested by the U.S. Accordingly, Washington let it be known that it was seeking proposals from third parties. At the U.N., Arthur Goldberg conferred with Secretary-General U Thant. In Washington, Rusk chatted with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin. Thant has been talking about Paris and a couple of other cities. Though it has criticized U.S. policy in Viet Nam, Paris would meet the basic U.S. requirements. The reason for its omission from Rusk's shopping list was the hope...
Thus they find themselves in a vicious circle. In this situation, there is more and more talk of the need to find a formula to end the war. Some suggest a bombing halt to test whether, as United Nations Secretary-General U Thant maintains, Hanoi really will show up at the negotiating table in a matter of days. Others propose the establishment of a joint command to give the U.S. greater leverage over the erratic South Vietnamese army. But one U.S. officer argues: "We've got to make sure that when we walk out of here some...