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...Horn's next assignment: to head a new 200-man U.N. peace-keeping force in Yemen, designed to get Egypt and Saudi Arabia out of the Yemeni civil war. No sooner had Secretary-General U Thant announced the project than the Soviet Union called for a Security Council meeting this week, in an evident attempt to bring the Yemeni mission within range of the Russian veto...
Mount Holyoke College U THANT, Secretary-General...
Dean Rusk and U Thant received honorary degrees this morning from President Pusey, in the 312th Commencement Exercises...
...whose citation read "resolute, responsible leader in a perilous age who seeks in statecraft a constructive world force," was once Dean of the Mills College Faculty, and served until 1961 as President of the Rockefeller Foundation. Kennan is returning this year to the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeon. Thant ("He reconciles conflicts among the nations and boldly administers a worldwide ecort for human betterment") was a headmaster of Burese schools and state director of Information...
...traditional Holy Thursday reception for diplomats accredited to the Vatican, the Pope said that he hoped his encyclical "will be heard and understood by all"-and it seemed that it was. There was a chorus of praise from leaders of other churches, and U.N. Secretary General U. Thant chimed in with "respectful homage" to the Pope for "his great wisdom, vision and courage." As a description of personal rights and the role of government, Pacem in Terns so closely conformed to Western practice and ideals that the U.S. State Department abandoned its custom of ignoring papal encyclicals and said...