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...solution would be for the Congo's 5,000-man U.N. force to step into Kwilu, but Army Boss Mobutu is jealous of their presence, and Secretary-General U Thant wants to pull all U.N. troops out of the Congo by June 30 in any case...
...Thant of the United Nations. What he says rings round the world and what he does promotes the peace of the world...
...taking over the seat formerly occupied by Malaya. The military operation in the Congo will again trigger a bitter controversy. But for all the noise ahead, Canada's Prime Minister Lester Pearson felt the 18th to be "the Assembly of opportunity." Pearson backed Secretary-General U Thant's request for a permanent peace-keeping force composed of specially trained units from contributing nations. "The Scandinavian member states have shown the way," said Pear son, adding that a similar Canadian force was now available...
...rioters. A blunt, spade-bearded Scot who once dispersed an anti-British mob in Iceland by playing Chopin records from a phonograph set in his office window, Gilchrist explained to the rioters that the United Nations had sanctioned Malaysia, dismissed them with a contemptuous "Hidup [long live] U Thant...
Faced with the uproar, Thant last week called a press conference, announced that he was turning the whole decision over to the Security Council and the General Assembly-but that he would stick to his pull-out plan unless he got some emergency financing. One possibility: a reduced Congo force of perhaps 3,000 men, paid for by the U.S. and other interested nations...