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...Before dawn on the day of his latest and greatest venture into space, he arrived by helicopter at the launching site at New Mexico's Holloman Air Force Base, climbed into an air-conditioned van to don his Buck Rogersish pressurized space suit, and to begin two hours of inhaling pure oxygen (to get his red blood cells loaded up with an extra supply). Shortly before zero hour, 5:30 a.m., he staggered from the van. his 165-lb. frame laden with 155 lbs. of clothing and equipment, including an experimental stabilizing parachute designed to prevent dangerous high-altitude...
...Dawn. When he finally entered the wide blue and gold council chamber, Dag Hammarskjold looked, as always, calm and cool. But there was a strain in his tired voice, and his words, usually oblique and professional, this time were plain and full of passion. The Congo, said Hammarskjold with chilling precision, is "a question of peace or war, and when saying peace or war, I do not limit my perspective to the Congo." Bluntly he portioned out blame to Belgium for dragging its feet, to the Congo for its impatience, and strongly criticized governments-unnamed-which threatened to take matters...
...dawn lightened the sky over the warehouses and factories of Long Island City across the river, the Council listened intently while the Congo's Justin Bomboko urged: "We should leave aside our rancor and our feelings; we should try together to find a solution." Tunisia's Mongi Slim closed the debate. With an apologetic bow to Italy's Egidio Ortona for what he was about to say, Slim brought up a 24-year-old ghost: the fateful day in 1936 when the League of Nations failed its biggest test, the day when Ethiopia's Emperor Haile...
...orders to take his battalion 40 miles north to hunt down pro-Communist Pathet Lao rebels. Instead, he moved east to a nearby Laotian army camp, where he won over an armored squadron with the fiery plea: "This fratricidal fighting among Laotians must cease!" Rolling back to Vientiane before dawn, Kongle's 3,000 men swiftly captured the capital, its air port, two generals and a few minor bureaucrats at a cost of only six casualties...
...create a counterweight to the U.S. within the Western alliance. Adenauer regards the U.S. alliance as basic to Bonn's for eign policy and thinks De Gaulle's dream dangerous. Accordingly, falling back on the technique with which wives have brought straying husbands to heel since the dawn of time, the shrewd old Chancellor embarked on a new flirtation...