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Sri Chinmoy dedicates a memorial arch to former UN Secretary-General U Thant, on U Thant Island in the East River adjacent to the UN headquarters in New York. The island was inaugurated on September 16, 1977, by ‘Sri Chinmoy: The Peace Meditation at the United Nations’.