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...Sinai. The whole problem of ending the mandate, as one Israeli diplomat in Jerusalem put it, is "a plate of legal spaghetti." Legally, the U.N. Security Council supervises both the peace-keeping forces in the Sinai and the observers on the Golan Heights, and last week Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim began summoning Council members to discuss how the mandate could be kept alive. Practically speaking, however, the U.N. troops could not remain in place if one side demanded their ouster. If they were forced out by Egypt, the situation could be ominous-and there is a disturbing precedent...
Standing stiffly on the flag-draped dais in Mexico City's Olympic Gymnasium was a small platoon of male bigwigs, including United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, Mexican President Luis Echeverria and various other officials. Down on the floor, masses of women draped in saris, ao-dais and other colorful garb listened more or less attentively as the men spoke. That strange beginning for a conference on women marked a meeting that is supposed to be the biggest of its kind in history-the centerpiece of the U.N.'s much-ballyhooed, much-disputed International Women's Year...
...himself Prince Leonard and elevated his family and friends to the peerage. Deeming him a harmless eccentric, the federal government pretended not to notice the prince and his province. But Casley, 47, the son of a Kalgoorlie railroad fireman, has proved difficult to ignore. United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim recently received a letter from Prince Leonard-on Hutt River letterhead-applying for acceptance as an observer member country...
...Kurt Waldheim, LL.D., Secretary General of the United Nations...
WEDNESDAY. Efforts to use diplomacy to increase the pressure on Cambodia to release the crew were still going on. At lunchtime, Ambassador John Scali handed United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim a letter asking him "to take any steps within your ability." Waldheim offered Phnom-Penh his "good offices," but received no answer...