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...other panelists yesterday were Joan French, who coordinates the Caribbean Policy Development Centre, and Aye Aye Thant, chair of Friends of Burma at Harvard...
...Thant said Burmese women suffer at the hands of the repressive government there. Although the country's government imposes restrictions on both men and women, Thant said women bear the brunt of this repression...
...Secretary General U Thant feared that befriending the Biafrans would undermine his status with Nigeria and other member nations that felt threatened by tribal secession. Great Britain had extensive economic ties to her former colony and envisioned huge profits for British petroleum interests from the oil deposits recently discovered under Nigeria's Eastern Region--Biafra. Small wonder, then, that Prime Minister Harold Wilson "remarked that if a million lbos had to die to preserve the unity of Nigeria, well, that was not too high a price...
...Thant K. Myint-U '87, who had just flown in from Christmas vacation in Bangkok, overcame his exhaustion to see the Secretary because, he said, his grandfather had served as a U.N. Third Secretary General and Myint-U thought it would be nice to "come say hello...
Against the surge of feeling, Khrushchev reacted hesitantly. Twelve hours after Kennedy's speech, the Kremlin issued a cautiously worded statement. Then Khrushchev grasped eagerly at a suggestion by U Thant, Acting Secretary-General of the United Nations, for a two or three weeks "suspension," with Russia halting missile shipments to Cuba and Kennedy lifting the blockade. Kennedy politely declined...