For 10 points, name this UN Secretary General who took over after Dag Hammarskjold (HAM-arr-skold) and was from Burma.
This man's grandson wrote The River of Lost Footsteps, which is partly a biography of this figure. This man was buried at the Cantonment Garden after students attempted to steal his coffin because the government refused to give him a state funeral. This man ordered a not-India-or-Pakistan-related Operation Grand Slam to gain air superiority for the ONUC over Moishe Tshombe's (tuh-SHOM-bayz) Katangese secessionists. After denouncing the "troika formula," this man appointed Petrovich Arkadev and (*) Ralph Bunche as his principal advisors in his highest post. This man, who acted as a secretary at the Bandung Conference and restructured his office into USGs and ASGs, is most well-known for his mediation of the "Hotline Agreement" ending the Cuban Missile Crisis. For 10 points, name this UN Secretary General who took over after Dag Hammarskjold (HAM-arr-skold) and was from Burma.
This man's grandson wrote The River of Lost Footsteps, which is partly a biography of this figure.
U Thant [or Pantanaw U Thant]