Word: thant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confer with President Johnson. But nothing ever happens without fanfare or publicity when Actress Melina Mercouri gets involved. The Greek star, relieved of her citizenship and property because of her criticism of Greece's military junta, learned that the royal couple planned to lunch with Secretary-General U Thant. Planting herself like an avenging Athena in front of the TV cameras outside the U.N. entrance, Melina began reading a long list of rhetorical questions calling for democratic elections in Greece, etc., etc. Constantine and Anne-Marie made it inside to their luncheon without hav ing Melina's open...
Most of the delegates were pacifists, nonetheless, and the assemblage duly applauded the U.N.'s Buddhist Secretary-General U Thant, who in effect demanded that the U.S. get out of Viet Nam. Quakers happily reported that they have funneled $25,000 to Canadians who deliver medical supplies to North Viet Nam. One group was hoping to sponsor another sally of the Quaker-owned ketch Phoenix into Haiphong harbor with medicines...
...barb wire. One of the prisoners, their spokesman, held up a piece of paper which he promised would prove that they were refugees on the U.N. payroll and not soldiers. The contract, upon closer examination, had expired on May 31, five days before the battle for Gaza; U Thant's withdrawal had left them in the hole. "We haven't been paid for our work," one of them screamed as I walked away. In the adjacent compound, Egyptian prisoners with a big red "E" painted on their pants and shirts watched skeptically. "We have to keep them separated," a guard...
...Your Mideast coverage illustrates the ineffectiveness of the U.N. as a peacekeeper. U Thant's wishy-washy attempt to discuss the issue with Nasser, his pulling out of troops, and the pointless speeches by delegates show the urgent need for reform...
...moral and political force in world affairs has been revealed more clearly by the Mideast crisis than by any other event in recent years. That is an unpleasant fact, but it can no longer be evaded, even by those in our country who have found in Secretary-General U Thant's statements on Viet Nam a comforting endorsement of their own views...