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...supposed to do the ascertaining, the U.N.'s already overburdened Secretary-General U Thant, was also thinking in terms of a referendum, which would take at least four weeks and might require a mandate from the General Assembly. All this could push the Malaysia timetable from late August until November. The British government applied some needed stiffening to Tunku's back by telling him bluntly that they were pulling their troops out of Sarawak and North Borneo on schedule, thereby opening both territories to possible Indonesian infiltration and terrorism...
Failing to reach a decision, the meeting went on into this week, with indications that a compromise might emerge. U Thant was reported ready to visit the Borneo territories, without waiting for General Assembly approval, and prepared to make his "ascertainment" without a formal referendum. Sukarno, switching from intransigence to blithe unconcern, took time off to collect an honorary degree (his 21st) from the University of the Philippines, to pursue a pretty Malayan correspondent, and to demonstrate for photographers the intricacies of the lenso, a sort of static Indonesian twist...
Although Stevenson had agreed to the final draft, he was abruptly overruled by Washington, possibly because the U.S. is renegotiating a lease with Portugal for use of the Azores. Leaving the way open for future action, the resolution directs Secretary-General U Thant to report by Oct. 31 on Portugal's response. In Lisbon, a Foreign Ministry official said: "We've been stubborn for centuries and aren't going to change...
...Major General Carl von Horn, 59, idled beside the crystal pool of Beirut's Hotel Phoenicia. Then marching orders came from the United Nations in New York: by a 10-0 vote, with the Soviet Union abstaining, the Security Council last week approved Secretary-General U Thant's plan to send a U.N. truce team to strife-torn Yemen...
...brief visit in April, he discovered that royalist tribesmen had ambushed some 40 Egyptian soldiers, killed them all and stuffed their severed heads inside their slashed-open bellies. At the time, Von Horn gloomily concluded that the war could go on ten years. In New York, U Thant blandly expects it all to be over in "two to four months...