Word: civilianizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first international police force landed at Abou Suweir air base-196 men: 45 Danes, 97 Norwegians and 54 Colombians. They were the first of a projected 6.000. Along with the Colombians came the man who had brought this historic force into being: a slight-shouldered, sandy-haired Swedish civilian named Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold...
...seagoing bomber was capable of carrying a 30,000 Ib. pay load to 40,000ft. heights and at speeds over 600 m.p.h. Then, in an instant, the plane burst into flames, went out of control into a steep dive, crashed in a field near Wilmington, Del. The four-man civilian crew parachuted to safety...
...violence was mostly Russian. A dispatch brought by courier from a Western embassy reported: "The situation in Budapest is terroristic. Soviet soldiers are stealing and looting everywhere. They get into private homes and apartments on the pretext of looking for partisans and arms and then loot everything. Civilians are being stopped by Soviet soldiers on the street. The soldiers take from them all watches and jewelry. Civilian wounded are being taken to Rokus Hospital, which is very much overcrowded. Dead from the wards are thrown into the hospital courtyard. Wine cellars all over the city are being broken into...
...captured 7,000 more and destroyed twelve Egyptian jets. What impressed them most of all, however, was the booty they collected: more than 100 tanks (many of them heavy Soviet T-34s). nearly 200 artillery pieces, small arms by the thousands, and enough gasoline to supply Israel's civilian needs for a year. "It is only now," said Premier Ben-Gurion somewhat nervously, "that we have fully realized how great in quantity, how modern and excellent in quality were the Egyptian arms and equipment." Then, more confidently, he added: "But all this was of no avail because there...
Egyptians might well believe these stories. There were, in fact, no immediate signs that the war had done anything to shake the Egyptian public's confidence in Nasser. (In Port Said, when a newsman asked a captured Egyptian civilian, "What do you think of Nasser now?", the prisoner squared his shoulders and blurted back: "What do you think of Eden...