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...incident underscored the warning of U.N. Secretary-General U Thant just three weeks before, that the observers had become "defenseless targets in a shooting gallery." The observer corps is composed mainly of army officers from seven countries. The men live nine days at a stretch in concrete-reinforced bunkers, marked by a U.N. flag and bearing multilingual code names like Charlie, Delta, Kilo, Lima and Mike on the Egyptian side. On the Israeli side, the posts are named for colors. Neither combatant is supposed to locate weapons within 43 yards of the posts, but that rule is largely ignored...
Fearful Precedent. After Plane's death, the chief U.N. truce supervisor, Norway's Lieut. General Odd Bull, ordered two of the 18 observation posts, one on each side, closed because of danger or damage. But despite U Thant's repeated threats to withdraw the observer corps entirely if the risk continues, that drastic step is not likely to be taken...
...Since June 1967," U.N. Secretary-General U Thant reported to the Security Council, "the level of violence has never been higher," and "open warfare had been resumed." He admitted the 1967 cease-fire had "ceased to be respected" in the Suez Canal sector and hinted that he might be forced to order the withdrawal of the 92 U.N. military observers posted along the canal. "They cannot be expected," he said, "to serve as what amounts to defenseless targets in a shooting gallery...
NERVOUS about inflation, tight money and the prospects of a business slowdown, Wall Street has more than enough to worry about these days. But last week the words and deeds of some very important people further unnerved investors. At the U.N., U Thant reported that fighting along the Suez Canal had erupted into "open warfare." It was the kind of news that Wall Street hates. In the U.S. Senate, Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long raised prospects of a long delay before action on extension of the surtax, and Wall Street was bothered even more. Most disturbing of all, Treasury Secretary...
...Thant, LL.D., Secretary-General of the United Nations...