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  1. Burmese diplomat, secretary general of the
  2. United Nations 1962-71. He helped to resolve
  3. the US-Soviet crisis over the Soviet
  4. installation of missiles in Cuba, and he made
  5. the controversial decision to withdraw the UN
  6. peacekeeping force from the Egypt-Israel
  7. border 1967 (see Arab-Israeli Wars).
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