Secretary-General U Thant sent a letter to all U.N. delegations last week telling them his decision "not to offer myself" for a second five-year term.
U Thant put it down to frustration. After more than 20 years, he said, the U.N. has yet to agree "on basic principles" for its prime mission of peacekeeping. It has also failed, he noted, to become "universal," meaning that Red China should be seated. U Thant felt, too, that the U.S. and Western Europe were not doing enough to improve trade terms with poorer countries of the world. Then there was Viet Nam. "To...
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