Word: thant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instructed to determine the status of the cease-fire talks between Egypt, Jordan, Israel and United Nations Negotiator Gunnar Jarring. The talks, stymied by Nasser's missile movements near the Suez Canal and by Jordan's civil war, will almost certainly be suspended indefinitely. United Nations Secretary-General U Thant acknowledged as much last week when he decided to let Diplomat Jarring return to his regular assignment as Swedish Ambassador to Moscow. Nasser was indispensable to getting the talks going. Before...
Despite the imposing cast of characters, there is little likelihood of major diplomatic breakthroughs. That would be consistent with the U.N.'s record of the past 25 years-few big successes, some small ones and many disappointments. As Secretary-General U. Thant said last week: "There are times when I believe that the U.N. has not been faring so badly; that we have had an uneasy peace during the last 25 years, and that we have at least avoided an atomic conflagration; that nearly a billion people have gained their independence, without the bloodshed and struggles which other nations...
...found himself cornered one day last week by a group of reporters near his office on the 38th floor of the United Nations Secretariat building in Manhattan. Pelted with questions about the Arab-Israeli discussions that he has been summoned to conduct on behalf of U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, the Swedish diplomat recited an aphorism in Hindi, one of a dozen languages that he knows. Then he translated it: "All is all right." With customary caution, Jarring immediately added, "I mean that only personally...
...Thant's special representative to the Middle East for more than 2½ years, Jarring, who speaks nearly a dozen languages, including Arabic, Russian and French, has conducted the U.N.'s intermittent search for peace in the Middle East. Because Arab leaders adamantly refuse-for the time being, at least-to bargain with the Israelis face to face, Jarring's critical task is to explain each side's position to the other. His skill at doing just that is one of the few things the two sides have agreed on. "Jarring has a remarkable capacity...
...usually works in the book-lined study of the sea-coast bungalow where he and his wife Lillian spend their vacations. Their 21-year-old daughter Eva laughingly refers to the telephone in the summer home as "the hot line." It rang two weeks ago when U Thant called to summon Jarring to New York to embark upon yet another round of what is generally regarded as the world's most difficult diplomatic mission...