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...Congo chief, patient Robert Gardiner, is increasingly exasperated at the deadlock, has dropped strong hints that his units will put down Tshombe and take over Katanga by force if the wily Moise breaks off negotiations entirely. In Manhattan the U.N.'s Acting Secretary-General U Thant declared that his Congo commanders "have been told to be very much on the alert." The U.N. may or may not be able to accomplish it, but sooner or later, the preposterous, protracted Adoula-Tshombe deadlock will have to be broken. The inert Congo giant cannot be allowed to lie there indefinitely...
...diplomatic politeness makes it non-U to refer to these countries as "backward" or even "underdeveloped." To close the word gap U.N. delegates have developed a dictionary of discretion. Some euphemisms: Less privileged, less developed, developing, emerging, have-not, catchup, lowincome, needy, "poorest third" (used by Secretary-General U Thant), dependent, recipient and restless. Paul Hoffman, head of the U.N. Special Fund, is popularizing "modernizing nations," which seems to be catching on as the new vogue phrase. A still newer definition advanced by a U.N. correspondent last week: "Since these countries are all involved in the revolution of rising expectations...
WILLIAMS COLLEGE U Thant, Acting Secretary-General...
Died. Tin Maung ("Tinny") Thant, 21, only son of U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, a onetime sociology student at Manhattan's Hunter College; of brain injuries after falling off a swerving bus; in Rangoon, Burma...
Into New York State Supreme Court charged agents of the State Rent Com mission to settle a spat involving a long-clawed cat. The cat belongs to Acting U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, 53, and occupies an honored place in his well-appointed eleven-room digs on Manhattan's East Side. The man who sublets the place had been charging Thant $1,200 a month until the commission sued him for rent gouging and demanded $51,700 triple damages on Thant's behalf. Not at all, protested the landlord. The gouge was on the other side. Thant...