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...business done, Betancourt's U.S. trip became ruffles and flourishes. He pushed on to New York for a two-day stay, had lunch at the U.N. with Secretary-General U Thant, journeyed up the Hudson to see New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, whose wide interests in Venezuela run from the Creole Petroleum Corp. to cattle ranching and supermarkets. At week's end Betancourt flew to Miami, paused for breakfast with A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, then boarded a Venezuelan jetliner bound for more state visiting in Mexico. Then he will go on to the Dominican Republic, where Juan...
...little premature. The perfect hosts proved pretty picky guests at a Mona Lisa preview dinner later in the week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The way U.N. officials got it, the invites were already out when Alphand balked at discovering that U.N. Secretary-General U Thant was among the honored guests. It was, sniffed Alphand, a strictly Franco-American affair. Harassed Met officials got the Alphands to agree to two head tables, with Alphand and Adlai Stevenson at the head head table, and Mme. Alphand at another one with U Thant. The Secretary-General coldly refused...
...Secretary-General U Thant, who comes from neutralist Burma and occupies the world's most neutralized job, allowed himself a little partisanship when asked a press conference question about the U.S. delegate: "In my experience of public men, I have very rarely come across a statesman of Ambassador Adlai Stevenson's stature-with mellow wisdom, perceptive thinking and balanced judgment. He has been representing his country in the United Nations with eminence and with extraordinary competence...
Noronha was not the only one who was relieved that Tshombe was sticking to his promise to reintegrate Katanga with the rest of the Congo. At U.N. headquarters in Manhattan, Secretary-General U Thant could now turn to a problem that might turn out to be even tougher than ending Tshombe's secession. It was to establish the Congolese Central Government's authority over all the Congo and end the anarchy that still reigns in much of the nation...
...starter, Thant appealed for $19 million to finance 1963 civilian operations in the Congo, estimated that at least 1,300 technical experts would be needed at once in the biggest aid program the U.N. has yet undertaken. The plan is to cut the U.N.'s 19,000-man army in the Congo by 50% as soon as possible-perhaps by late summer...