Word: gaza
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...Canadian and British troops on Cyprus last week were issued U.N. shoulder patches and light blue berets and helmets. Thus the U.N. formally assumed responsibility for keeping the peace, and India's Lieut. General Prem Singh Gyani, a veteran of U.N. operations in the Gaza Strip and Yemen, took over the military command. En route to Cyprus to serve as the U.N. political mediator is Sakari Tuomioja, 52, a blond, heavy-set Finn with a cherubic face, who was nominated by Secretary-General U Thant and accepted by all the interested parties. Most recently...
...threat of action likely to worsen the situation," and "requested" that U Thant press on with his peacekeeping efforts. Next day there was a breakthrough on the troop bottleneck. Sweden planned to send in an advance force of several hundred men from its contingent with the U.N. force in Gaza. Canada dispatched a small group of officers as a "reconnaissance mission." Another 1,000 Canadian troops prepared to take off for Nicosia this week. Other nations had weighed in with money, the U.S., $2,-000,000; Britain, $1,000,000; Greece, $500,000; Turkey...
Short Rations. It is all very frustrat ing for the 200-man U.N. team, which was rushed to the scene from the Gaza Strip two months ago in an effort to stop the shooting. The unit, made up mostly of Yugoslav soldiers and Cana dian airmen, was far too small to police the vast, empty Yemen frontier, and from the start it was plagued by bad breaks and hostility from local authori ties. The team's first commander. Swedish Major General Carl von Horn, had hardly set up headquarters in the mud-walled capital of San'a when...
Bombs at Night. A peacemaking veteran with years of experience in the Gaza Strip and the Congo, Von Horn is not sanguine about his chances in Yemen. On a brief visit in April, he discovered that royalist tribesmen had ambushed some 40 Egyptian soldiers, killed them all and stuffed their severed heads inside their slashed-open bellies. At the time, Von Horn gloomily concluded that the war could go on ten years. In New York, U Thant blandly expects it all to be over in "two to four months...
aide: "The belligerents speak to each other only through guns or through us." Star & Wall. In addition to policing the borders, the U.N. must also feed, clothe and house or educate 1,075,000 Palestine Arab refugees crowded into the 25-mile-long Gaza Strip separating Israel and Egypt and neighboring Arab countries. In all, 18,740 U.N. personnel from a dozen countries are engaged in the area, and the operation now costs more than $60 million annually. Strung out in two-man teams in remote posts for 15 days at a stretch, the observers face daily risks, plus...