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Right after the vote, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant informed Peking by telegram of the General Assembly action. Four days later came a terse cable, signed by Peking's Acting Foreign Minister Chi Pengfei. A delegation would be coming "in the near future," it said; there was speculation, but no confirmation, that it could arrive this week. In no uncertain terms, Chi made it clear that Peking wanted the Nationalists ousted not only from the U.N. but also from the 13 specialized agencies such as the World Health Organization and the International Telecommunications Union. "I believe," Chi concluded briskly, that...
...Francis blindfolded. A masked Lone Ranger. Premier Kosygin. Indistinguishable beauty contest winners. Teddy Kennedy delivering his Chappaquiddick apologia. Truth or Consequences. David Susskind. Moon shots. Spiro Agnew cooking linguini with Dinah Shore. Mr. Ed. Fulton Sheen. A sportscast logo. Truman Capote. General Westmoreland with Ed Sullivan. Perry Como. U Thant, Joe Namath, and so on, for a total of 1,000 slides that are continuously seen on the walls from museum opening to closing. Simultaneously, four TV sets in the corners of the gallery carry live local channels to relate the "art" to "life...
...departure precedes that of Secretary-General U Thant, who has decided to retire after ten years. Among the candidates to succeed Thant is Finnish Ambassador to the U.N. Max Jakobson. The French government, however, last week suddenly began to lobby for selection of someone more linguistically able. Distressed by the poor French of Thant, the French are hoping for a French-speaking successor. A favorite appears to be Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, who is the U.N. high commissioner for refugees and speaks the language exquisitely...
...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...