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...that Nixon is a diseased and disgraced man, incapable of a comeback, will allow him the time and tolerance to make such a comeback. If he succeeds--if in five years he is the Republicans' next Alf Landon, the nation's next Averill Harriman, the world's next U Thant--Watergate and all of its revelations and investigations will have accomplished little...
...next day, acting United Nations Secretary-General U Thant announced that Kennedy and Khrushchev had agreed to avoid an immediate showdown in the Caribbean...
...United Nations General Assembly is virtually certain to approve a plan that would expand the range of Japanese largesse to international education. The Japanese government wants a United Nations University to be built at the new academic town of Tsukuba, 45 miles northeast of Tokyo. First proposed by U Thant in 1969, U.N.U. would have no formal classes or degrees but would be a sort of international think tank for the study of world problems. In addition to its main campus, it would have branches round the globe...
...specific problem in foreign affairs and hied himself off to put the proposition to the appropriate authorities. In 1968, before the Paris Viet Nam talks, Fisher, acting as a private citizen, tried to persuade Sweden to get negotiations started. He had half talked former U.N. Secretary-General U Thant into backing the Swedish initiative when that government took a dovish turn that undercut its neutrality. Fisher has also written various letters to Middle Eastern leaders. Recently published as Dear Israelis, Dear Arabs (Harper & Row; $6.95), the letters make many specific proposals, for example, that Israel make a sample withdrawal...
...Earth, a nonprofit Design Science Institute has just been set up in Washington, D.C. It will be headed by Dr. Glenn A. Olds, president of Kent State University, with an advisory council including such notables as Polio Fighter Jonas E. Salk, and former U.N. Secretary-General U Thant. As for his latest solutions, the cryptic creator of the geodesic dome called for a new "world accounting system," democracy by "continual electronic referendum," and an "educational revolution" in which each child would program his own computer to answer such questions as "Why is the sky blue...