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...world-and even in the sleek chambers of U.N. headquarters in Manhattan-Communist-inspired squads broke into rioting (see FOREIGN NEWS). The Soviet Union threatened military intervention in behalf of the Communist-lining Congolese Pretender Antoine Gizenga. It reopened its campaign to destroy the authority of U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold and. in effect, to destroy the U.N. as a force for law and as a workable instrument of orderly neutrality...
Finding the Ford. Convinced that their hero had indeed been done in, eleven pro-Lumumba nations (Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Morocco, Libya, India, Indonesia, U.A.R., Ceylon, Russia and Yugoslavia) petitioned the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold for an immediate investigation. Moscow radio-which has reason to be expert in such matters-went on the air with a prediction that the whole escape story had been manufactured as a cover ("shot while escaping") to explain away the fact that Lumumba would be found dead. In Katanga, Moise Tshombe, busy in conferences with a visiting foreign dignitary, seemed totally unconcerned. "President Tshombe does...
...rugmaking city of Kerman, anti-government Candidate Mozaffer Baghai had won three times before with large majorities; this time he was credited with only 27 votes against 2,000 for his government opponent. Baghai promptly sent a cable to U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold complaining that the government "has suppressed all rights and freedoms." With equal promptness, bastless Baghai was jailed...
Kanza maintained that the "last chance" of the U.S. in the Congo was to realign its policies along anti-colonialist "wave-lengths." He was cautious about evaluating the success of the U.N. in the Congo, saying only that Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold ought to ask himself, "Yes or No--did he follow the instructions of the Security Council...
...among other African leaders as well. Since Lumumba refused to disappear politically, U.S. strategists concluded that he could no longer be ignored. Last week, after summoning U.S. Ambassador Clare Timberlake for urgent consultations, Washington seemed prepared to throw its weight behind a sweeping new proposal of U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold...