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...been on the job longer than anybody else, and he sounds tired and discouraged. Last week, eleven months before his second five-year term is to expire, United Nations Secretary-General U Thant announced: "I have no intentions whatsoever of serving beyond the present term." There was little doubt that Thant, who turned 62 last week, meant what he said. The question was, who could succeed...
...Candidates. The problem is not that Thant is so peerless an administrator, statesman or anything else-far from it. It is rather that there are few candidates who are not objectionable for one reason or another. Thant gallantly said that "regional considerations" should play no part in the choice of his successor, but they will. So will racial, religious, ideological and even emotional considerations. No one representing either of the superpowers or their closest allies has a chance. Yet a candidate must pass muster with both Washington and Moscow-the "Directorate," as Brazil's Ambassador João Augusto...
...that a new chief U.N. executive should come from a country that is neutral, small and underdeveloped-which rules out Japan, among others. Since the first two men to hold the job, Norway's Trygve Lie and Sweden's Dag Hammarskjöld, were white Europeans and Thant is from Burma, many African and Latin delegates believe that it is their turn. But neither Moscow nor Washington wholly trusts the Black Africans (too unpredictable on any issue but race and colonialization), and the Russians feel that everything south of the Rio Grande except Cuba and Chile...
Familiar Figure. When the Israelis publicly indicate a willingness to sit down at the negotiating table. United Nations Secretary-General U Thant will summon Mediator Gunnar Jarring from his regular post as Swedish Ambassador to Moscow. Since the Arabs refuse to meet directly with Israel, Jarring is likely to shuttle between delegations. The site of the talks has not been settled. The Israelis would prefer Rome or Cyprus in order to be closer to Jerusalem for instructions. But Jarring will probably decide on New York. That could be an advantage: the farther from home all parties are, the slower...
...probably too late for the 1970 holiday season, but other treats could lie in store if leaders elsewhere were to pick up the idea: The Compleat Kosygin, The Long-Playing U Thant, Castro to Cut Cane By, Thieu for Tea, The Little Red Album of Chairman Mao's Thoughts, The Splendacious Sciolisms of Spiro (in stereo...