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...failed under the "ridiculous leadership" of Secretary General U Thant, who has been "an avowed Marxist for 20 years," Rousselot said...
This year, 85,000 college and high school students, in classrooms where TIME is used, are among those trying to outguess TIME'S editors. For those who got it wrong, we will confide that the leading nominations from readers (though not in this order) were U Thant, Kennedy, Mrs. Roosevelt, James Meredith, Castro, Adlai Stevenson, and the man who on this week's cover is proclaimed...
With the central government tottering toward anarchy and Tshombe apparently hoping to give it one last push simply by stalling long enough, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant decided to act. His instrument for "reconciliation"' is known simply as "The Plan," a four-part program drawn up last August and designed to force Tshombe to bring his mineral-rich province back into the Congo. Fortnight ago, Thant decided to stir up some action. Off to Britain, Belgium, Portugal and South Africa went letters urging a boycott on the copper and cobalt that earn some $200 million in foreign exchange...
...diplomatic business that takes patience, Stevenson has drawn on U.N. experience that goes back to the founding conference in San Francisco, steering through U.S. policy on the Congo operation, U.N. financing, and the election of U Thant-and doing it mostly in quiet, off-camera discussions. In U.N. speeches, Stevenson's eloquence has been an effective weapon. A year ago, he gave perhaps the most cogent speech to date, explaining why the U.S. opposes the seating of a Red China regime that behaves "in a fashion recalling the early authoritarian emperors of China.'' During the Angola...
Boosts in Thant's salary and expense allowance will raise his income by $10,000 to $70,500-all taxfree...