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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...
Tshombe had arrived in Ndola in the late afternoon and remained at the airport waiting for Hammarskjold. At 10:40 p.m., a plane bearing British Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Lord Lansdowne, who had agreed to act as intermediary, landed at Ndola. (Newsmen, mistaking him for Hammarskjold, sent out a flash that the Secretary-General had landed on schedule.) At 11:10 p.m., Tshombe and Lansdowne left the airport, and went to their quarters to sleep. Hammarskjold's plane was still unheard from...
...veered away and landed at another field. Not until nine hours later were air search parties called out, and at 3 p.m., a Rhodesian scout plane radioed back the news: the Albertina had crashed in a dense forest less than seven miles from the end of the Ndola runway. Hammarskjold's body was found a few yards from the charred wreckage. There was one survivor: U.N. Security Guard Harold Julien, who was almost delirious but managed to tell police he had heard some explosions just before the plane crashed. (Julien died five days later...
...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...