Word: engholm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaza, while the first convoy of a 2,600-man, six-nation U.N. Emergency Force clattered in to take over the strip "for the purpose of maintaining quiet during and after" the Israeli withdrawal. At midnight Israel's one-eyed Army Chief Moshe Dayan met Lieut. Colonel Carl Engholm, UNEF commander in Gaza, in the town square. "Everything is going well," said Engholm. Less than 48 hours later, fast-moving General Dayan handed over the wrecked Egyptian gun positions overlooking the Gulf of Aqaba narrows, and Israel's army was gone from Egypt after a 126-day stay...
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