Word: hammarskjolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once assembled in Casablanca's ornate city hall, the leaders needed only nine hours to come up with "concrete solutions" to the Congo problem. All Dag Hammarskjold and the U.N. need do, they said, was spring Russian-backed Patrice Lumumba from jail and restore him as Premier, evacuate all Belgian armed forces, reconvene the Congolese parliament and completely outlaw any separatist movements like that in mineral-rich Katanga province. If Hammarskjold refused to accept their blueprint, they threatened to pick up their soldiers (some 6,500 men, or one-third of the U.N. force in the Congo...
Morocco, Guinea and others were criticizing Hammarskjold, and talked of taking their forces out of the U.N. command. Ghana wanted Africans to form an "African command" of their...
...happily joined the Afro-Asians, posing as the greatest anti-colonialists ever. Finally, last week, the Soviet delegates watched gleefully as a solid group of Africans joined the Reds in defeating (by one vote) a U.S. effort to promote a round-table conference of Congolese leaders and endorse Dag Hammarskjold's recent efforts to keep order...
...suggest you give Mr. Dag Hammarskjold the honor he deserves...
...veteran of 15 years with P.T.I., Lazarus scored his first big Congo scoop when he reported that Congolese troops were threatening to attack the residence of India's Rajeshwar Dayal, who is U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's personal representative in the Congo. Spotting the story in the august Times of India-one of 200 Indian dailies that sub scribe to P.T.I.-Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru rose in India's Parliament to protest the hostile attitude of the Congolese government toward his countryman. But other Congo hands could find no evidence for Lazarus' sensational story...