Draped in red velvet and the blue-and-white flag of the United Nations, the coffin of former U.N. Secretary-General U Thant last week was honored at the world organization's New York headquarters in an unprecedented lying in state. Thant, 65, retired three years ago after a record ten years as Secretary-General, to be succeeded by Austria's Kurt Waldheim. Since that time, ridden by cancer and unable to return to his native Burma because of political enemies at home, Thant had lived quietly in a New York suburb and worked on the memoirs of...
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