Word: ethiopian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...area, he too lashed out at the U.N. Object of his ire was Ian Berendsen, U.N. chief in Katanga. "He is totally inefficient," roared Tshombe. "This representative has been working with such bad faith that I consider myself obliged to demand his immediate recall." Tshombe accused U.N. Ethiopian troops of widespread looting in one isolated town, but as it turned out the Ethiopians had only appropriated a few linen sheets...
...Belgian paratroops were coming to grab the Premier. At that unfortunate moment, a U.S. Air Force Globemaster roared in to Stanleyville from Toronto, carrying Canadian signal equipment and personnel. Surrounding the plane, the howling mob dragged out the eight American crewmen, beating them with rifle butts and sticks. U.N. Ethiopian troops rescued three of the Americans and several bruised Canadians whom the Congolese had hauled off to prison. But in the meantime, other Congolese troops had invaded and sacked the U.N. headquarters in Stanleyville...
...Congo's central government, of "acting in connivance" with the secessionist regime in the Congo's Katanga province, and of deliberately misinterpreting his instructions from the U.N. Security Council. Then, blithely ignoring the fact that the U.N. had already dispatched 2,000 African (Moroccan, Mali and Ethiopian) troops to Katanga. Lumumba accused Dag of sending in only units from Ireland (there were no Irish troops in Katanga) and from Sweden, "a country known to have special affinities with the Belgian royal family." Hammarskjold coldly replied that he had decided to return to New York to call another Security...
...settled. The U.N. can legally remain in the Congo only at the invitation of the Congo government, and last week Premier Lumumba, growling ominously about the pressures on him, called on Hammarskjold to abandon his plans to garrison Katanga province with mixed black and white forces (Swedish, Moroccan and Ethiopian), demanded a totally black force instead. "African troops," he insisted, "are completely capable of carrying out the U.N. mission." In Accra, Ghana's Nkrumah was still talking up the formation of an "All-African" army composed of units from Ghana, Guinea, the U.A.R. and "volunteers" from all the continent...
...week's meeting was newly irenic. Evangelical Theologian Edmund Schlink of Heidelberg was invited to address one of the numerous study groups on "Ritual as Understood by Protestant Theology" and was enthusiastically applauded. Participants attended Mass in more than 100 churches, and in the Byzantine, Armenian, Maronite and Ethiopian rites as well as the Roman. In specially designated churches, confessions were heard in 17 languages...