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ADMINISTRATION officials have also changed their positions back and forth. September 1964 U Thant got Hanoi to agree to unconditional negotiations in Rangoon, Burma. Thant informed Stevenson, ambassador to the U.N., of the agreement. Stevenson in turn communicated the news to Washington. Four months later Stevenson told U Thant that the United States could not accept the proposal. When Stevenson finally leaked the news of the rejection the following June, Rusk justified the administration's action by contending Hanoi had had no intention of entering "serious" negotiations at the time, citing his sensitive "antennae" as the source of his impression...
...flown to Israel last year. But international pressure was building up for release of the El Al plane and the detained Israelis. Commercial pilots spoke of boycotting Algerian airports. Israel enlisted the aid of 30 nations that have relations with both itself and Algeria, also appealed to U Thant for help. Perhaps more to the point, Israel intimated that if the plane was not released soon, its fighters might force down some Arab airliners in retaliation...
...Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. U Thant, is reported to have said, in connection with Vietnam, that in war, the first casuality is truth. The Nigerian civil war is today another painful reminder of this phenomenon. Claims of a special Ibo Jewishness and Catholic Christianity vis a vis other Nigerian groups, and counter-claims of an Ibo plot to dominate others, have cluttered the scene...
Phillip Whitten, president of the Ed School's Student Association, sent letters to President Johnson, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, Mrs. Coretta King and Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal asking them to intervene "in the name of humanity...
...long since had all the perquisites and puissance of a full-fledged ambassador. It was Bo who in January raised peace hopes by saying talks "will" come (instead of "could") once the U.S. stopped bombing the North. Nothing came of it then, although the United Nations' U Thant scurried to Bo's door...