View from the UN /
U Thant;
- Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1978.
- 1 online resource (xix, 508 p.) 21cm.
Part I. The search for a secretary general : Troika ; How did I receive my role? ; What is a secretary general? -- Part II. The secretary general as mediator : Efforts for peace ; The secret search for peace in Vietnam ; The financial crisis -- Part III. The politics of confrontation : Crisis in the Congo ; The Cuban missile crisis -- Part IV. The Middle East : A personal note ; The Arab-Israeli War of 1948 and its aftermath ; The Arab-Israeli War of 1956 and its aftermath ; The withdrawal of UNEF ; The Six-Day War and its aftermath ; Events leading to the Arab-Israeli War of 1973 -- Part V. Spheres of influence : The Dominican crisis ; The invasion of Czechoslovakia -- Part VI. The Asian subcontinent : The Indo-Pakistani Conflict: first phase ; The larger war ; Interlude: Pilgrimages, 1967 ; The birth of Bangla Desh ; Part VII. Global changes.
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