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Thant Ends U.N. Secretary General Era With Broad Support
United Nations figure U Thant departs the secretary general post amid unprecedented popularity and broad esteem from nations large and small. He secured wide backing for extensions, contrasting with earlier leaders Lie and Hammarskjold who faced Soviet pressure and untimely deaths.
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