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...proportion to what they are worth. After all, his only direct competition will come from the Post, with its predictable liberal approach to any issue. The Post, says Conniff, should serve "to keep us from getting stuffy. But hell, last week the Post had two-TWO-editorials on U Thant. Tell me, is U Thant what people are talking about over their cocktails...
Secretary-General U Thant sent a letter to all U.N. delegations last week telling them his decision "not to offer myself" for a second five-year term...
...Thant put it down to frustration. After more than 20 years, he said, the U.N. has yet to agree "on basic principles" for its prime mission of peacekeeping. It has also failed, he noted, to become "universal," meaning that Red China should be seated. U Thant felt, too, that the U.S. and Western Europe were not doing enough to improve trade terms with poorer countries of the world. Then there was Viet Nam. "To day," he said, "the pressure of events is remorselessly leading toward a major war, while efforts to reverse that trend are lagging disastrously behind...
...Thant really frustrated enough to quit? Many delegates thought not. After all, the pay ($70,500 a year, tax free) is good, his health is fine, and everyone-even the Russians-wants him to stay on. Besides, no one can seem to agree on a successor. In the U.N.'s clubby delegates' lounge last week, more than a dozen names were being mentioned, from Finland's ex-Ambassador to the U.N. Ralph Enckell to Mexico's past President Adolfo Lopez Mateos. In the end, the doubters feel that U Thant, whose current term of office runs...
...just like the Alamo." And he records some presidential double-edged scorn: Handing the Dominican government back to Juan Bosch, said Johnson, "would be like turning it over to Arthur Schlesinger Jr." Geyelin alludes to Johnson's scorching private appraisals of De Gaulle, Pearson, Shastri, Ayub Khan, U Thant. He is more explicit about the President's sentiments toward the Organization of American States; using dashes in place of a four-letter word, Geyelin quotes L.B.J. as saying, "The OAS couldn't pour - - out of a boot if instructions were written on the heel...