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Died. Sakari Tuomioja, 53, Finnish ranker and U.N. diplomat who proved himself a savvy, soft-spoken trouble-hooter in Laos in 1959, was picked by U.N. Secretary-General U Thant last March to try mediating the Cyprus dispute; following a stroke on Aug. 16, just before he was ready to present his own peace proposal to the embattled Greek and Turkish Cypriots; in Helsinki...
...whole story in the Congo last week. The important river town of Stanleyville was still firmly in revolutionary hands-and with it some 300 white residents who had been trying desperately to get out since the rebel invasion five weeks ago. Concerned for their safety, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant last week cabled his personal "urgent appeal" to Lieut. General Nicholas Olenga, Stanleyville's rebel commander, to allow the U.N. to send planes to evacuate them...
Sing Along with U Thant. In the capital, where a woman of such exalted station rarely escapes the scratch of a well-aimed shiv, Lady Bird has come off remarkably unscathed. Some people wonder if she is a sort of self-created Galatea, playing the role of a politician's perfect wife, the possessor of a flawless mediocrity that generates warm admiration but no scorching envy. Brother Tony says that "Lady Bird has been in public life and in the public eye for so long that she has learned to be circumspect, even when...
...Lady Bird has done her bit for zee folk music. Already a guitar-whacking bunch of folk singers called the New Christy Minstrels have entertained at a state dinner for Italy's President Segni, and Lady Bird recently capped a banquet for United Nations Secretary-General U Thant with a lusty audience sing-along of Puff, the Magic Dragon...
Whether 40 million Russians could sway their leaders was a dubious question. But at least it was a question worth asking. After all, nobody like the U.N.'s Thant had ever before put them to the test...