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...Labor government advocates seating the Communist Chinese-but the Laborites are almost certain to be more activist in achieving their aim. The British are also eager to bring Red China into disarmament discussions. Britain, said Gordon Walker, will "consider very favorably" the suggestion by U.N. Secretary General U Thant that the nuclear powers get together with the Chinese Communists for talks on the matter-this despite a U.S. rejection of the idea only a few days before...
...somewhat left-handed compliment, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant described Russia's new bosses as "competent and unpretentious." So far, at least, they have plenty to be unpretentious about. The start of their rule was not auspicious. Nikita Khrushchev was deposed and out of sight, but his invisible presence still badly cramped the style of the new Moscow team. When Premier Aleksei Kosygin and his teammate Leonid Brezhnev, new head of the Communist Party, made their first joint public appearance in Red Square to hail Russia's three most recent cosmonauts, applause from the onlookers was markedly listless...
...from Peking's nuclear firecracker wafted toward the West, the political chain reaction had only begun. Taking full propaganda advantage of its feat, Red China unctuously dispatched messages to heads of state, among them President Johnson, urging a summit conference to discuss nuclear disarmament. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant took up the call, suggested a meeting perhaps next year. The U.S. State Department had already rejected Red China's ploy, calling it "a sucker proposal" since it made no mention of inspection. If the Chinese are really concerned about all this, said the U.S., they can always sign...
Narasimhan, a top assistant to U.N. Secretary General U Thant, devoted most of the annual Dag Hammerskjold Lecture to a review of the U.N.'s efforts to promote "peaceful change" in the world...
...Security Council in New York nonetheless voted unanimously to extend the 6,100-man peace-keeping force's mandate for another three months, and U.N. Secretary-General U Thant announced at week's end that the Turks had at last agreed to hand over to the U.N. complete control of the strategic highway between Nicosia and Kyrenia. The agreement would represent a major Turkish concession toward peace. Question was, would the Greeks reciprocate by freeing some of the roads they control...