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Talk of new peace-keeping machinery led several participants - including Secretary-General U Thant - to propose a thorough reform...
Inevitably, there has been pressure from such sources as Paris, India and the United Nations for negotiations. Citing "dangerous possibilities of escalation," U.N. Secretary-General U Thant urged "shifting the quest for a solution away from the field of battle to the conference table." Replied the State Department: "We see no purpose to be served until there is evidence that the Communists are willing to abide by their previous commitments to leave their neighbors alone...
...problem is serious,"said U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, as the organization's financial crisis that has hamstrung the 19th Assembly dragged into still another week. The U.N., he had only $14.6 million cash on hand needed $9,000,000 a month simply to meet payrolls around the world and normal operating expenses. As for accounts payable, some $136 million in overdue assessments were on the U.N.'s books, and U Thant issued for the first time the names of the 16 delinquents: Russia and eight other Communist nations, France, Belgium, Haiti, Paraguay, South Africa, Yemen and Bolivia...
Under Article 19 of the U.N. Charter, any nation more than two years in arrears automatically loses its vote in the General Assembly. Though Haiti promptly paid its tardy $31,979 and Bolivia and Paraguay coughed up some $30,000 each after U Thant's blacklisting last week, the other 13 stand to lose their votes, and the issue has turned into a major tug-of-war between the U.S. and Russia, which owes the most: some $63 million...
...Thant's citation of the Russians by name as debtors brought the harshest criticism of the Secretary-General since he took office in 1962: the reference, they insisted, was "illegal," and his approach "arbitrary and one-sided...