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Blue Beret. In its effort to end the little war on Cyprus, the Security Council unanimously passed a resolution providing for 1) a police force, which will spend three months on the island, 2) a military commander and a mediator, both to be named by Secretary-General U Thant, and 3) the estimated $10 million costs to be borne by the nations sending troops and by hoped-for "voluntary" contributions from other member states of the United Nations. The Security Council, said one U.S. observer, "has issued a Taft-Hartley injunction, and now we've got 90 days...
...Thant formally requested troops from Canada, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, Austria and Brazil, and the U.S. is expected to handle the logistics of getting the troops to Cyprus. He also named India's Lieut. General Prem Singh Gyani as commander of the U.N. peace-keeping force. Already in Cyprus as a U.N. observer, Gyani changed from civilian clothes to a resplendent uniform topped by a blue beret. His record as commander of the U.N. Emergency Force in the Middle East was faultless, and he has also served the U.N. in Yemen. As mediator, U Thant submitted the name of Guatemala...
...dead; the second was a German professor who went mad. I am the third, and I have forgotten all about it." Forceful Tampering. Diplomats at the U.N. would be equally happy to forget all about the Cyprus problem, which last week was returned to the Security Council after U Thant's failure to provide a solution through backstage jockeying. The Greek Cypriots, led by their President, Archbishop Makarios, stubbornly insist that any draft resolution contain a reminder that all U.N. members must refrain under the Charter from tampering by force with the territorial integrity and independence of other members...
...last week, representatives of the eleven-nation U.N. Security Council filed in and out of U Thant's office, 38 stories above Manhattan's East River...
Guarded Optimism. Then the Council adjourned for behind-the-scenes political jockeying masterminded by Secretary-General U Thant. What seemed to be emerging was a projected international peacekeeping force, under the U.N. umbrella but with a British command...