Word: thant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decade sought to bring peace to the world was denied it in death. The funeral of former U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, who died in New York City on Nov. 25, last week erupted into a violent rebellion in Rangoon, Burma's capital. Rioting students, monks and workers clashed with government troops in a bizarre battle over Thant's final resting place. At week's end martial law was imposed in an effort to resolve the tense situation...
...Died. U Thant, 65, third Secretary-General of the United Nations (1961-71); in Manhattan (see THE WORLD...
...that Nixon is a diseased and disgraced man, incapable of a comeback, will allow him the time and tolerance to make such a comeback. If he succeeds--if in five years he is the Republicans' next Alf Landon, the nation's next Averill Harriman, the world's next U Thant--Watergate and all of its revelations and investigations will have accomplished little...
...next day, acting United Nations Secretary-General U Thant announced that Kennedy and Khrushchev had agreed to avoid an immediate showdown in the Caribbean...
...United Nations General Assembly is virtually certain to approve a plan that would expand the range of Japanese largesse to international education. The Japanese government wants a United Nations University to be built at the new academic town of Tsukuba, 45 miles northeast of Tokyo. First proposed by U Thant in 1969, U.N.U. would have no formal classes or degrees but would be a sort of international think tank for the study of world problems. In addition to its main campus, it would have branches round the globe...