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Bearing a handsomely engraved Burmese silver bowl for Nikita Khrushchev, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant flew into Moscow last week on a matter of principal: $54,768,188 in back payments that Russia owes the world organization...
...this just a bluff? U Thant spent two days urging Nikita to make at least a token payment, but emerged emptyhanded. "I did not get the impression that the Soviet Union is prepared to change its policy in this matter," he told a press conference in Moscow. The mild-mannered little Burmese-often criticized for excessive flexibility-could have left it at that. But to everyone's astonishment, the Secretary-General took his case straight to the Russian people...
This is not normally an easy matter. But making what was supposedly a protocol appearance on Russia's television network, U Thant told an estimated 40 million viewers that the U.N. is "facing a very serious financial crisis." What's more, he added, "I am convinced that the people of the Soviet Union and their leaders want the United Nations to develop into a really effective instrument for the maintenance of peace. To achieve this noble objective, it is up to all of us to try to find a solution to get the United Nations...
...week's end, perhaps prompted by the threat of Denmark and Sweden to send their 1,800 U.N. peace-keeping troops home, the U.N.'s Secretary-General U Thant dispatched hot notes to Turkey and Greece, demanding that at the very least the new surreptitious troop buildup be stopped. Grivas himself made it clear that his peace talk and his desire to keep order could only go so far, that he would fight unless he could get enosis. Visiting a hospital in Nicosia, Grivas patted an expectant mother's bulging belly and said: "You will give forth...
...crisis mission or courtesy call, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, 55, has flown to a dozen capitals in the past three years, but never to his home town, Rangoon. Between July 25 and 27, however, he plans a small detour en route to a visit to Moscow. He wants to visit his mother, now well past 80, and for the first time, the grave of his only son, Tin Maung (Timmy), who was killed two years ago at 21 in a Rangoon bus accident...