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Pleas for clemency poured in, however, from both within Greece and from abroad. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, Pope Paul VI and the U.S. Government added their voices to the cam paign. In Athens, the response was stony. The controlled Greek press was not even allowed to refer to the mounting appeals for clemency. Final defense pleas for a reprieve were denied. Slowly, Pa-naghoulis' last hours ticked away...
Born. To Aye Aye Myint U, 28, daughter of U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, and Tyn Myint U, 31, Manhattan College assistant prof; a daughter, their second child; in Manhattan...
Regional Preserve. On the Viet Nam issue, Secretary General U Thant last week only underscored the U.N.'s impotence when he mused at a press conference what might happen if a resolution was presented calling for a halt to U.S. bombing in North Viet Nam. Thant made no mention of a reciprocal move and conceded in advance that such a resolution was "not a very practical proposition." U.S. Representative George Ball concurred. In what turned out to be one of his last state ments before resigning (see THE NATION), Ball judged the Secretary General's comments...
...election of Guatemala's Foreign Minister, Emilio Arenales, as president, an honor he prized highly, since "Guatemala can expect to preside only about once in 100 years." But the beginning of this century's term was hardly encouraging. In the Secretary General's annual report, U Thant surveyed the unhappy world and, conceding the U.N.'s ineffectiveness, could only suggest an old-fashioned summit meeting of the U.S., Russia, Britain and France. That suggestion is not likely to be taken seriously either...
...October 1966, according to Kraslow and Loory, Dean Rusk told Thant that Stevenson actually rejected the peace proposal on his own initiative, a contention which stunned Thant. Stevenson, dead by that time, had always worked indefatigably for peace in Vietnam...