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Two days later she had lunch with another delegate at the conference. It was none other than the President's brother, Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Like others on the U.S. delegation, Teddy Kennedy had halfway hoped to avoid the confrontation. But they had a chat. A long chat. "She discussed at length her side of the picture," said Teddy later. "She wanted to talk to me. She wants to talk to anyone and everyone." In fact, declared an awed witness to the one-sided conversation, "she did not stop talking from one minute to the other." Unable to get a word in edgeways, Teddy took notes.

* It may have been this tart remark that partly prompted U.N. Secretary-General U Thant to make some wholly gratuitous observations at a Manhattan press conference. Conditions in Saigon were "chaotic," declared U Thant, adding that "constitutional processes" are "a feature which is completely absent in Viet Nam." They are, of course, completely absent in his own country, Burma, which is ruled by General Ne Win, as firm a dictator as exists in Southeast Asia but never criticized by U Thant.

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