Word: hammarskjold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only a severe space limitation could permit TIME, in its sensitive coverage of the tragedy of Dag Hammarskjold's death [Sept. 29], to omit all mention of Dr. Heinrich Wieschhoff, who was killed at the same time...
...downward, Paar tore into the "yellow journalists," attacked the New York Journal-American for its "warmongering," its sex mania, and its "editorials by Tarzan: Me good American, you good American . . ." Peeling clip after clip from a stack of papers, he cited the A.P.'s mistaken report of Dag Hammarskjold's safe arrival at N'dola to show how inaccurate the printed word...
...Hammarskjold's death has not created any great new crisis for the United Nations, simply because it has not fundamentally changed the nature of the organization or its capabilities, a University expert on international relations declared yesterday...
Sweden's 81-year-old Archbishop Emeritus Erling Eidem, who buried Hammarskjold's statesman father eight years ago, conducted the service with quavering hand. Opera Singer Elisabeth Soderstrom sang I Know That My Redeemer Liveth, and the Lutheran choir Work, for the Night Is Coming. Near the casket was a wreath of daffodils and two red roses. Sent by Hammarskjold's family, it bore a one-word inscription...
Ghana's controlled press, meantime, stepped up its anti-British campaign. One paper accused Britain of fomenting labor unrest, another charged it had plotted the death of Dag Hammarskjold. The Accra Evening News, angry at the proposed November visit of Queen Elizabeth (''the head of a bloated kingdom"), called on the government to cancel the invitation. But Nkrumah is still unwilling to give up his position in the Commonwealth. In London. Ghana's Acting High Commissioner Kwesi Armah called a press conference to erase any thoughts that the Queen would be unwelcome. Said he: "A hilarious...