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Secretary-General U Thant made no secret of his feeling that the U.S. was being unreasonable. To which Secretary of State Dean Rusk-as near to exasperation as he ever gets-retorted: "If we were to say that we would negotiate only if all of the violence in South Viet Nam were stopped while we continue to bomb the North, most people would say that we were crazy. When the other side makes exactly the same proposition in reverse, it is hard for me to understand why there are people who say, That sounds like a good proposition...
...international scene, foreign officials of such different political coloring as U Thant, the Foreign Minister of Indonesia, the Canadian Minister for External Affairs, and Premier Kosygin of the Soviet Union have been taking a similar tack...
...suggestion as a "soap bubble," announced a step-up in aid to Hanoi, branded Washington a "barbarous" aggressor, and demanded nothing less than an American pullout from Viet Nam as the price for peace. Gromyko's intransigent tone made it obvious even to Secretary-General U Thant that the U.N. is not likely to be the arena in which the Viet Nam impasse will finally be broken...
...this was a fine beginning. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, an invited guest, exhorted the members to greater things but politely reminded them that beginnings too often remain just that in Africa. After four years of existence, said Thant, "your organization has not made the hoped-for progress toward achievement of its goals...
...confer with President Johnson. But nothing ever happens without fanfare or publicity when Actress Melina Mercouri gets involved. The Greek star, relieved of her citizenship and property because of her criticism of Greece's military junta, learned that the royal couple planned to lunch with Secretary-General U Thant. Planting herself like an avenging Athena in front of the TV cameras outside the U.N. entrance, Melina began reading a long list of rhetorical questions calling for democratic elections in Greece, etc., etc. Constantine and Anne-Marie made it inside to their luncheon without hav ing Melina's open...