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...that the U.N.'s O'Brien, presumably with the full approval of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, had started in an attempt to bring Tshombe back under the authority of the Congo central government and thus head off a possible civil war. As the fighting raged on, it carried the United Nations into the new, uncomfortable-and, to some critics, indefensible-position of active aggressor on a large scale...
Ultimatum. Since February, United Nations forces in the Congo had been armed with a Security Council resolution calling upon Tshombe to dismiss the 500 European officers leading his null army-and actively working toward maintaining Katanga's secession from the central Congo government, even at the cost of civil war. Last month, the Congo's moderate Premier Cyrille Adoula asked the U.N. to enforce the resolution. O'Brien gave Tshombe until Sept. 9 to get rid of the Europeans...
Fringe Benefits. Many of the neutrals abandoned any pretense of judging the cold war, pushed their own pet projects. The Congo's Vice Premier Antoine Gizenga. arriving late with Premier Adoula, claimed the floor in violation of the rule that only heads of delegations could speak, used it to subtly pump up his own prestige as Patrice Lumumba's spiritual heir. Equally busy was the F.L.N.'s new Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda, who succeeded in persuading Afghanistan, Cambodia. Ghana and Yugoslavia to extend formal recognition to his provisional Algerian government...
Died. Brigadier Joseph Michel, 44, Sandhurst-trained Ghanaian army officer who. the day before his death, had been named chief of staff of U.N. forces in the Congo: of injuries following a plane crash; in Kintampo, Ghana...
...That the magazine will merely parrot Soviet policy-in Yiddish-seems clear on almost all 130 pages of its first issue. Obscure Yiddish writers are represented, but the magazine's tone is set by excerpts from Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's autobiography, sentimental songs about Cuba and the Congo, and a poem celebrating the wonders of a Siberian hydroelectric project...