Word: hammarskjolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blame for Mr. Hammarskjold's tragic death lies entirely on the unfortunate U.N. action in Katanga [Sept. 22], trying to re-incorporate the "secessionist" province...
...officials began picking up the tag ends of the world's business where Dag Hammarskjold had left...
Post-Mortems. Given Katanga's fierce animosity toward the U.N. and Hammarskjold, not to mention The Lone Ranger's known presence, the world immediately suspected that the crash was no accident. The Rhodesian government ordered a full investigation-including complete post-mortem examination of every body, although all but Hammarskjold's had been charred beyond recognition...
...control tower at Ndola, barely seven miles from the charred clearing slashed out by Dag Hammarskjold's doomed plane, two men arranged the cease-fire he had set out to negotiate. After a two-day session, Katanga's President Moise Tshombe and U.N. Negotiator Mahmoud Khiari signed a provisional truce, ending the eight-day Battle of Katanga. Unofficial death toll: 44 U.N. troops, 152 Katangese police and soldiers, 79 African civilians, 14 European civilians...
Died. Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold, 56, second Secretary-General of the United Nations, a dauntless Swede who pursued peace but lived with conflict; in a plane crash; near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (see THE WORLD...