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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neither side seemed to want the guns to sound again after six months of silence. But so far neither has engaged wholeheartedly in peace negotiations under the aegis of U.N. Mediator Gunnar Jarring. Jarring this week will submit a progress report on his talks to Secretary-General U Thant, who will then report to the Security Council. Thant is expected to suggest that there has been enough movement to warrant a continuation of the ceasefire. He is also likely to propose that the Big Four-the U.S., Soviet Union, Britain and France -issue a similar call for extension...
...cross" for Army hierarchy, some officers still see the service as the sole bulwark against national rot. But many of the cadets quickly shed their uniforms for civvies once they get home on leave, and explain to dates that they go to "an upstate New York college, or the U. Va., some place like that...
...been on the job longer than anybody else, and he sounds tired and discouraged. Last week, eleven months before his second five-year term is to expire, United Nations Secretary-General U Thant announced: "I have no intentions whatsoever of serving beyond the present term." There was little doubt that Thant, who turned 62 last week, meant what he said. The question was, who could succeed...
...certain soft-spoken Asian who comes from a small, neutral, underdeveloped country that recognizes Peking, who has kept on reasonably good terms with both superpowers, and who reflects what one diplomat calls "a comfortable level of mediocrity." As a result, some believe that for the second straight time U Thant may find it impossible to resist a draft. . . . Thant's sense of futility about his job is not difficult to understand. Last week Egypt made headlines by revealing that it will not at present demand a U.N. Security Council meeting to discuss the Middle East. Israel...
There has been a marked increase in such activities in recent years. Before 1960 India and Pakistan were the only two "high-fertility" countries with official government policies aimed at reducing population growth. Today, 30 developing nations have state-supported programs. Villot points out that in 1967 Secretary-General U Thant established the Fund for Population Activities to provide financial and technical assistance. Worse, he writes, the U.N.'s children's fund (UNICEF) is now committed to distribute contraceptives: "It therefore puts itself in contradiction to the very objectives of the institution created for the well-being...