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...indeed old home week for many of the 638 delegates who traveled to Manhattan from 112 countries for what U Thant had billed as an "unprecedented worldwide meeting" of youth. Nearly a third of the "young people" were over 25; one owned up to being 47. Several sported the thinning hair and thickening waistlines that characterize the men who are known on the world conference circuit as "professional youths." So prominent were the pros, especially among the Communist delegations, that the organizers considered tossing out everyone who could not prove himself under 30. But youth conferences, apparently, are too important...
...formal manners of international diplomacy must have come easily to U.N. Secretary-General U Thant. A Burmese youth is taught to show respect for parents and elders by prostrating himself when he leaves their presence. And a son is never too old or too important to kowtow to his mother, as the 61-year-old statesman demonstrated last week at the Rangoon home of Daw Nan Thaung...
Little Hope. About the only person who seemed even remotely optimistic was United Nations Secretary-General U Thant. Cutting short a home visit to Burma, Thant flew back to New York for consultations with ambassadors of the four powers (the U.S., Soviet Union, Britain and France) that are attempting to restore the Middle East ceasefire. Thant said he had returned to examine "positive elements" in the talks; the participants, after 28 fruitless meetings, wondered what he meant. They have agreed that Israel should withdraw from occupied territories. But they are far from agreement on security guarantees for Israel, and without...
Foreign observers, after cursory checks of Gowon's Jerusalem, returned to Lagos with airily optimistic progress reports. United Nations Secretary-General U Thant, after two days in Lagos and none in Biafra, said unqualifiedly that "there is no hint, even the remotest evidence of violence by the Nigerian Federal forces." Henrik Beer, secretary general of the League of Red Cross Societies in Geneva, doubted that there had ever been wholesale starvation in Biafra. But hunger remained a very real threat. Gowon adamantly refused to let relief groups use Uli airstrip, a symbol of Biafran resistance. One result...
Time Running Out. Secretary-General U Thant warned last May that the nations of the world have "perhaps ten years left" to solve their ancient quarrels and begin working together. In his annual report last week, he sounded even more pessimistic. Rather than reducing the level of nuclear arms, he charged, the major powers have assumed "the incalculable and unmanageable risks of pursuing a race which may end in disaster for all mankind." There has been "very little progress" toward peace and security, Thant said, and "time is running out." If the initial indications are accurate, Thant-and mankind-will...