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There was another round of shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East last week, but for once Henry Kissinger was not involved. This time it was United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, who flew back and forth between Jerusalem and Damascus in a last-ditch effort to extend the mandate of the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force on the Golan Heights. At week's end, after exhaustive deliberations in the U.N. Security Council, Syria reluctantly agreed to extend the mandate...
...votes led even the professionally neutral Kurt Waldheim to express dismay. The U.N.'s Secretary-General deplored the danger that "we may lose the future through discord and confrontation." More predictably, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said the resolution was "highly irresponsible" and had "added to the tensions, to the rifts and to the distrust" in the world. Congress was less restrained. Both houses denounced the action and promised an immediate reappraisal of U.S. involvement in the U.N. Conservative Senator James Buckley of New York charged that "the General Assembly has decided to institutionalize one of the world...
...last week a delegation of French artists and intellectuals-among them Actor Yves Montand and Leftist Author Régis Debray-flew to Madrid to protest the sentences. They were quickly expelled. Official notes of protest were issued by the European Economic Community and United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. Even Pope Paul VI issued a personal plea for clemency...
...formal dinner on the first night. After two months of discussion, the Finns decided to ask each delegation to send its four most senior members to the dinner; the ranking member of each delegation will be seated closest to the host and to U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim at a gigantic C-shaped banquet table. The dinner menu and wine list remained a state secret, at least partly because Kekkonen, under local pressure to serve a Finnish sparkling wine,* was privately determined to offer French champagne...
...Reality. Clerides represents the Greek Cypriots in the peace negotiations with Turkish-Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktaş. that have been taking place in Vienna under the personal supervision of U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. A third phase of the talks is scheduled to start this week, but there is little hope of breaking the deadlock that has existed since they began last April. Clerides has proposed a multiregional federation, with Turkish Cypriots free to concentrate in their own separate areas scattered throughout the island. That would allow Greek Cypriots to return to their homes. The Turks insist, however, that...