Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unexpected War. The events surrounding Hammarskjold's fatal flight to Ndola were nearly as bizarre as the Congo political scene itself. From the Congolese capital of Leopoldville, Hammarskjold had watched in agony for four days as the fighting in Katanga grew worse. The U.N. force was stymied, and there was growing danger that the left-wing army of Congolese Vice Premier Antoine Gizenga might invade Katanga and start in earnest the civil war Hammarskjold had acted to avoid...
Meanwhile, details of Menderes' execution slowly became known, in spite of Turkish censorship. Brought back from a near-fatal suicide attempt, the former Premier was hanged as soon as he was declared fit by prison doctors. Apologizing for the "trouble" he had caused his jailers, Menderes was taken aboard a Turkish navy gunboat from the island of Yassiada, where the eleven-month trial had been held, to the prison island of Imrali, where Polatkan and Zorlu had been hanged 36 hours before. Aboard the gunboat Menderes asked permission to make the namaz (ablutions and prayers), later did not remonstrate...
...world had not yet recognized. An expert on finance whose translations of French verse won critical acclaim, he combined the resourcefulness of a diplomat with the vision of a poet. His vision, the philosophy of international cooperation which inspired his many expeditions of mediation and reconciliation, including his fatal mission to the Congo, found its fullest expression in the document which turned out to be his final testament to the world. In the report which he was to have submitted to the General Assembly upon his return from Africa, Mr. Hammarskjold contrasted two concepts of the authority and function...
...turn too fast, rolled once more, and suffered a fractured knee that kept him out of racing for a year. Von Trips was always "Count Crash" after that, but he was driving more carefully this year, taking fewer risks; and he took heart because Monza had not had a fatal accident since...
...Lower East Side. At 20, he is running a bucket shop. Soon he sets up a gambling house, and moves in on the horse parlors. But after fingering a little punk (Rooney) who has served him loyally, the rat (as he did in real life) catches a fatal dose of lead poisoning in Room 349 of the Park Central Hotel...