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...Secretary-General Waldheim's words, "face to face with a global emergency...
With this goal in mind, on March 21 I urged President Ford to consider an urgent appeal for U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim to exercise his good offices for humanitarian purposes in all sectors of South Viet Nam and Cambodia. I share the strong view of many Americans that, in cooperation with the International Red Cross and the private voluntary agencies, the good offices and active presence of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and UNICEF will help to save lives in Indochina, protect the movement of refugees, facilitate the free movement of relief personnel and supplies to areas...
...International Red Cross and other humanitarian groups geared up to assist refugees-young and old-who are not likely to be leaving Viet Nam. But U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim drew sharp criticism from U.S. and other officials for insisting that the evacuation of refugees from Communist-controlled territory was a "very controversial political problem" with which the U.N. should not get involved...
...mission for what he calls "lasting peace," Ikeda last year was received by both Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Chinese Premier Chou Enlai. When he visits the U.S. this week to address his organization's 200,000 converts in the country, Ikeda will meet U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim to inform him that Soka Gakkai has collected 10 million signatures against nuclear armament...
American Sociologist Daniel Bell was outraged. So were West German Novelist Heinrich Boll, France's former Culture Minister Andre Malraux and British Poet-Critic Stephen Spender. An indignant committee of Nobel laureates called upon U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim to complain. Novelist Saul Bellow was so angry that he exploded at an international P.E.N. congress in Jerusalem last week: "They are stupid, ignorant, partisan. And I think they are a lot of swine...