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...Burma's U Thant himself who took a broader line. He promised to clear out Tshombe's white soldiers ("professional adventurers who fight and kill for money"). He added: "The U.N. position, it seems to me, is automatically against all armed activities against the central government and against secessionist forces." As Stevenson's original amendment urged, U Thant pluckily proposed that the Congolese army be reorganized and retrained; this would put the troops into the hands of the central government-and out of the hands of such rebels as Gizenga...
...Burma's Justice Aung Rhine, Togo's Ayite d'Almeida, Ethiopia's Ato Tashoma Hailemariam, Mexico's Dr. Salvador Martinez de Alva...
With nary a negative peep from the Soviet bloc, the United Nations honored the wishes of the Ford Foundation (which donated the building) by dedicating its new $6,200,000 glass-and-marble library to the late Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. Eulogized Acting U.N. Secretary-General U Thant of Burma: "Dag Hammarskjold was a man of learning and a poet of the breed for whom books and libraries are necessary delights...
Nowhere is the struggle more apparent than in Red China's own backyard. Last week nine parties-North Viet Nam, North Korea, Burma, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaya, Australia, New Zealand and Belgium -joined Peking in sending congratulatory telegrams to Tirana for the outcast Albanian Communist Party's 20th anniversary.* The parties in Red China's key neighbor states-Japan and India...
...believes in supporting President Sukarno in the hope that increasing chaos will boost the Communists to power. Meanwhile, the Russians are busy flattering Lenin Peace Prizewinner Sukarno, offering academic scholarships (100, compared with 19 by the Chinese), building and equipping a 200-bed hospital in Djakarta. In Cambodia and Burma, the Chinese Communists are ahead, capitalizing on their racial similarities and on large colonies of local Chinese. While Russian diplomats and technicians try to live in American-style comfort, Peking's agents sleep 40 in a barracks, eat native food. Avoiding the Soviets' impractical showcase gifts (example...