Word: thant
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...said U.N. Secretary-General U Thant last week as he prepared to vacate the post he has held since 1961, a job that the U.N.'s first Secretary-General, Trygve Lie, once characterized as "the most impossible in the world." In an ordinary year, the selection of a new Secretary-General would overshadow most other matters on the agenda of the General Assembly. Ten years ago, in fact, that very issue brought the U.N. to the brink of a breakup when the Soviet Union tried to create an unwieldy three-man directorate in order to keep the post from...
Jewish Mother. If the China problem is devilishly difficult, so is the selection of a successor to U Thant. Ill, frustrated and weary, the 62-year-old Secretary-General finally convinced his colleagues only in recent weeks that he had no intention of remaining in office after his second five-year term expires...
...York, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant warned the Security Council that the Indian-Pakistani border clashes "could all too easily expand...
...Earlier, Thant proposed that U.N. observers be stationed on both sides of the frontier to aid repatriation of refugees. India rejected the plan because it implied that New Delhi rather than Islamabad was preventing the refugees' return...
...India. New Delhi is also concerned over Yahya's casual declaration during a recent interview that Sheik Mujibur Rahman, the Awami League leader now awaiting trial for treason, "might not be alive" by October. Last week 467 members of India's Parliament sent an appeal to U Thant to secure Mujib's release...