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Secretary-General U Thant appealed to Hanoi to refrain from escalating the war by staging the trials...
...Secretary-General U Thant was predictably pious (and for a neutral official, inappropriately political), expressing "deep regret" over the bombing of "heavily populated areas" and plugging his pet pipedream that by halting the air strikes the U.S. could end the war. The Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano viewed with concern, fretting that "news such as this cannot be learned without regret and also without worries." Charles de Gaulle, to nobody's surprise, joined his Moscow hosts in an expression of "alarm" and a warning of the "increasing instability" in Southeast Asia,which-he forbore to note...
Four awards went to Vice President Hubert Humphrey (Michigan State, Minnesota, Temple, Huron); U.N. Secretary General U Thant (Fordham, Windsor, Manhattan, Hamilton); U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Arthur Goldberg (N.Y.U., Brandeis, Catholic University of America, College of Jewish Studies); New York Education Commissioner James E. Allen Jr. (N.Y.U., Yale, West Virginia, Pace); and former U.S. Education Commissioner Francis Keppel (Brandeis, Carnegie Tech., Clark, Providence). Last week's honorees...
...Thant, LL.D., Secretary-General of the United Nations...
That was too much for King Freddy. Declaring that the new constitution was nothing less than an act of secession from Uganda, he ordered Obote and his regime to leave Kampala, appealed to Secretary-General U Thant for United Nations intervention to avert "calamity at the eleventh hour." Obote immediately accused the King of high treason, surrounded the palace with troops. Then from the top of Mengo Hill came a sound seldom heard: the deep, buckskin thump of the royal war drums summoning Buganda's 2,000,000 subjects to rise to defend their King...