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...friends approach might prevail. The Soviets, more concerned with keeping SALT on the right track than with making trouble for Western reporters, appeared to be growing bored with the whole issue. UNESCO Director-General Amadou Mahtar M'Bow of Senegal, whose ambition is to succeed Kurt Waldheim as U.N. Secretary-General, is staking his prestige on passage of a mass media declaration, preferably by consensus. To that end, delegates from Western and nonaligned nations were caucusing last week to come up with a compromise acceptable to the U.S. Some American opponents of the declaration seem ready to go along. They...
Lebanese officials yesterday called for U.N. intervention. U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim is considering sending a U.N. official to Lebanon to try to organize a cease-fire, sources said...
...amount of legal or diplomatic hairsplitting can obscure where international justice now lies. The world community cannot leave this latest South African outrage unchallenged. The Security Council, led by the Western powers, must act swiftly to adopt Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim's proposal for U.N.-supervised elections and condemn South Africa's intransigence. If South Africa still refuses to back down and accept the U.N. plan, the U.N. must declare South Africa an immediate threat to international peace and enact harsh economic sanctions against the apartheid state, including a potentially devastating oil embargo...
...requiem Mass in St. Peter's Square there was no ornate catafalque. The ceremony had a certain grandeur nonetheless, flowing from those who came to pay homage: the more than 100,000 worshipers and the dignitaries from 104 nations, including Rosalynn Carter from the U.S., U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and hosts of high government officials and diplomats. Leaders of the "separated brethren" also attended, led by retired Archbishop of Canterbury A. Michael Ramsey. A folio of the four Gospels lay open on the plain coffin as Carlo Cardinal Confalonieri, 85, read a brief address in Italian extolling the Pontiff...
Ahtisaari faces more than psychological roadblocks. By the end of August he is supposed to submit to U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim a plan for a truce between the guerrillas and South African troops, as well as a blueprint for the election of a constituent assembly that will draft a constitution for independent Namibia. Pretoria has warned that it may reject any recommendation Ahtisaari comes up with. Meanwhile both sides have adopted a "you first" attitude that will make a cease-fire difficult to achieve. As guerrillas under his command blew up a vital water line in northern Namibia, SWAPO...