Word: ulcer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Yoichiro Makita, 68, president of Japan's fifth largest corporation, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries; of complications from a peptic ulcer; in Tokyo Makita became head of the mammoth company in 1969, set out immediately to forge an agreement allowing Chrysler Motors to market Mitsubishi's Colt in the U.S., the first such deal between Detroit and a Japanese manufacturer. Makita took unabashed pride in the fact that Mitsubishi's chief products during World War 11 were warships and Zero fighter planes, and was an outspoken advocate of Japan's rearmament "Now that our G.N.P. is third...
...place the issue before the U.N. Security Council for fear that they might prove to be unable to agree. Lying in his hospital bed in New York City, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant confided to one of his aides last week: "If I am suffering from a bleeding ulcer, it is at least in part due to my frustrating efforts over the past eight months to do something about the terrible situation in East Pakistan." Even Pakistan's U.N. delegate, Agha Shahi, who was ready to bring the matter before the Security Council early in the week, quickly changed...
...doesn't exist, he may have to be invented-in a hurry. On Dec. 31, Secretary-General U Thant, 62, suffering from a bleeding ulcer and general exhaustion, will end his two-term, ten-year stewardship. That leaves the 130 delegations little more than a month to find someone acceptable to all of the contentious Big Five and also to a majority of the Third World. According to Finnish Delegate Max Jakobson, the ideal candidate for the $65,000-a-year post would have to be "a person who is of no religion and of no race, a person...
...relatively small mission, unfamiliar with the world organization, might at first be less active than many members of the U.N. expected. Nonetheless, the Chinese will receive considerable press exposure this week-when Chiao becomes the first diplomat to visit ailing Secretary-General U Thant, who is hospitalized with an ulcer, then when he delivers his first speech in the General Assembly...
...between ideology and the practical imperatives of diplomacy. Probably Peking's least difficult task will be reaching agreement with Moscow and Washington on a new Secretary-General to replace the retiring U Thant, who collapsed in his office last week and was hospitalized for treatment of a peptic ulcer. A far harder problem is posed by the Middle East. Peking, which last week refused to accept a congratulatory telegram from Israel, one of its supporters in the vote on admission, has all along backed the Palestinian fedayeen, often against Soviet-supported Arab governments. To continue to do so would...