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Wednesday, March 20, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Thai ambassador to address KU Model United Nations
The KU Model United Nations will open its 1968 general session at 9:30 a.m. Thursday with an address by Buchana Atthakor, ambassador to the United States from Thailand. It will be in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Atthakor's speech will be open to the public and is expected to be attended by the delegates to the Model UN. His topic has not been announced.
Carles Rodriguez, the national representative from the Council on International Relations and United Nations Affairs (CIRUNA), will be here from Wednesday until Saturday to observe the proceedings, Nancy Thompson, Burlingame senior, and Secretary General of the Model UN, said.
Preregistration will be from
7:30 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. Wednesday, she said. At this time the different blocs will be allowed to have meetings.
The committees start their meetings Thursday at 2 p.m. and will continue until 5 p.m. At 6:30 they will begin again until 9:30 p.m. The General Assembly will meet Friday and Saturday.
The Security Council and Economic and Social Committee will meet concurrently with the committee meetings and the General Assembly, Miss Thompson said.
The Security Council will meet in the Kansas Union Oread Room and the Economic and Social Committee will meet in the Kansas Union Pine Room.
The nations on the Security
Council include France, China, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the USSR, all of which have permanent seats and veto power. The other countries on the Security Council this year are Senegal, Hungary, Ethiopia, India, Denmark, Canada, Brazil, Paraguay, Pakistan and Algeria—the nations currently represented on the UN Security Council in New York.
The General Assembly in its Friday and Saturday sessions will discuss the resolutions brought to the floor by the committees.
A diplomatic reception will be Friday in the Eldridge Hotel Crystal Room. The reception is a combined effort of the Model UN and People-to-People.
FBI confiscates jewelry, coins
MIAMI—(UPI)A plywood box and 10 suitcases loaded with jewels, gold trinkets and coins were found by FBI agents at the suburban apartment of a man the FBI identified as a known associate of jewel thieves, it was disclosed Tuesday.