Word: thant
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...powers are anxious to avert a conflict on the subcontinent, none are rushing to place the issue before the U.N. Security Council for fear that they might prove to be unable to agree. Lying in his hospital bed in New York City, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant confided to one of his aides last week: "If I am suffering from a bleeding ulcer, it is at least in part due to my frustrating efforts over the past eight months to do something about the terrible situation in East Pakistan." Even Pakistan's U.N. delegate, Agha Shahi, who was ready...
...doesn't exist, he may have to be invented-in a hurry. On Dec. 31, Secretary-General U Thant, 62, suffering from a bleeding ulcer and general exhaustion, will end his two-term, ten-year stewardship. That leaves the 130 delegations little more than a month to find someone acceptable to all of the contentious Big Five and also to a majority of the Third World. According to Finnish Delegate Max Jakobson, the ideal candidate for the $65,000-a-year post would have to be "a person who is of no religion and of no race, a person...
...Chinese? They presented their credentials to U Thant in the hospital last week, and then, according to a U.N. official, "they mumbled something about hoping that he would continue in the job." Officially, the Chinese would say nothing about the search for a successor except "We are very new here." The neutral Finns have long been on relatively cordial terms with China (they recognized Peking in 1950), and this is thought to be in Jakobson's favor. But the Chinese entered the U.N. with such a resounding bid for support from the Third World (see following story) that they...
...bureaucrat. When Hammarskjold proved to be a vigorous leader who heavily committed U.N. troops and funds in the Congolese civil war, the Soviets began insisting that he be replaced by a three-man "troika." They dropped that demand only when they got the kind of neutral they wanted: U Thant...
...officials blame Thant for much of the organization's ineffectuality. They consider him unimaginative, vacillating and not at all impartial. Specifically, they accuse him of dithering during the 1967 Middle East war, of doing nothing about the India-Pakistan crisis, and of continually criticizing the U.S. role in Viet Nam. "Look, no one can expect a guy to be totally neutral -he'd have to be inanimate," says one such critic. "But he certainly can be impartial, and that possibility altogether escaped U Thant...