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...year ago last week, the guns fell silent along the Suez Canal as Egypt and Israel announced their acceptance of U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers' plan for a ceasefire. At the time, United Nations Secretary-General U Thant declared: "The road ahead is long, arduous and uncertain, but if only there is a will for peace, all obstacles can be surmounted and peace will be achieved." In the year since, few obstacles have been surmounted, and a formula for peace has yet to be found. But the year-long respite has produced a profound change in the mood...
...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...
Israel's position stalemated the peace talks being held under the aegis of United Nations Mediator Gunnar Jarring. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant last week tactfully summed up the previous month's discussions by noting that "some further progress" had been made. But Thant added that a deadlock still existed and that Israel's lack of commitment on withdrawal made the situation one of increasing concern. In an effort to get the talks going again, the Big Four (Britain, France, the Soviet Union and the U.S.) held two meetings in Manhattan last week. They were unable...