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Nonetheless, there were hopes that Neto, who wants to improve relations with the West, will spare at least Gearhart and perhaps Barker. Touring U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. William Scranton took up the matter in the Ivory Coast with U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, who will see Neto this week at the annual meeting of the Organization of African Unity. The State Department also asked the Rev. Ralph Dodge, a retired missionary who during his 20 years in Angola was close to Neto, to use his influence to ask for clemency. Dodge contacted Neto but at week...
...which also granted the new micro-nation title to Aldabra, a world-renowned tropical bird sanctuary, and to two other islands. The Seychelles are halfway between Africa and Asia, and Mancham is adamant about keeping the Indian Ocean "a peaceful lake." He has assured United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim that "we will do everything we can to avoid getting involved in big-power confrontations." Mancham adds: "We may not have much of a role to play in major global issues," referring to the fact the Seychelles Republic has no army, navy or air force. But, he vows...
...National Union for the Total Liberation of Angola (UNITA), which still controls the southern half of the country. Britain and France were also engaged in separate but coordinated soundings in Black Africa and South Africa designed to achieve the same end. In New York, United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim was said to be ready to act as a go-between, should the Organization of African Unity seek U.N. help to bring about a ceasefire...
...Lampoon's first acts of independence was to apply to the United Nations for membership as a sovereign state, with a telegram to U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim...
Complex questions were involved in Waldheim's effort to keep the 1,220-man force of Austrians, Iranians, Canadians and Poles on the Golan. Israel was willing to renew the mandate, but only on the same terms as the original mandate worked out by Kissinger in May 1974. Damascus made renewal of the mandate a cliffhanger by presenting some new - and to Israel, unacceptable - demands. Syria argued that any extension of the U.N. force should be tied to a Security Council decision on rights for the Palestinians and to a peace treaty, within six months, calling for Israeli withdrawal...