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...Thant, Secretary-General of the U.N.-LL.D...
...takes a good man to be so strongly opposed by Rockefeller and the big-money interests, Khrushchev and the Communists, U Thant and the internationalists, Senator Javits and the "liberals," Senator Kuchel and the anti-rightists. Votes are being generated for Goldwater by those united in opposition...
...wrong man," burbles Bob. "I didn't even go to the Christmas party." Nevertheless he takes the tyke home to his bachelor flat, powders her with confectioners' sugar, fastens her diapers with Scotch tape, and warms her milk in an empty fifth. Meanwhile, back at U Thant's East River headquarters, an international incident begins to boil. Seems all 111 member nations want to claim the foundling for their very own and are eager to give it the best of all possible homelands...
...Singh Gyani, a veteran of U.N. operations in the Gaza Strip and Yemen, took over the military command. En route to Cyprus to serve as the U.N. political mediator is Sakari Tuomioja, 52, a blond, heavy-set Finn with a cherubic face, who was nominated by Secretary-General U Thant and accepted by all the interested parties. Most recently...
Once again, the nonpermanent members of the Council came to the rescue. They produced a new resolution requiring all member states to "refrain from any action or threat of action likely to worsen the situation," and "requested" that U Thant press on with his peacekeeping efforts. Next day there was a breakthrough on the troop bottleneck. Sweden planned to send in an advance force of several hundred men from its contingent with the U.N. force in Gaza. Canada dispatched a small group of officers as a "reconnaissance mission." Another 1,000 Canadian troops prepared to take off for Nicosia this...