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...auspicious. He arrived in Beirut only four days after 50 had died in the capital's bloodiest battle, and in the midst of tension so great that the U.S. embassy had told all 5,000 American residents of Lebanon to stay indoors for the day. But Dag Hammarskjold, imperturbable professional bird of good omen, brought the country-at least temporarily-its quietest days since the revolt began. He moved swiftly into headquarters in the Biarritz Hotel commanding a magnificent view of the Mediterranean, and began conferences with the U.N. observers who had already arrived under the Security Council directive...
Late that morning the Secretary-General visited President Camille Chamoun for 45 minutes, and silently took notes on what the President had to say. Reportedly, Chamoun wanted a U.N. force of several thousand to seal off his Syrian border against further United Arab Republic infiltration. Hammarskjold gave Chamoun no answer and would not even talk to rebel leaders. Instead, he stuck rigidly to his mandate to set up a group to watch the border...
...chief observer, New Zealand's Lieut. Colonel Maurice Brown, promised to have the 100 spotters that Hammarskjold wanted (from nine countries) at work by week's end. From four outposts scattered throughout Lebanon, Brown sent them out in pairs of white U.N. jeeps to "see and hear." Later he hopes to add four light planes and two helicopters (offered by the U.S.) for his spotters. When Lebanese officials complained that such small, unarmed patrols could not stop infiltrators, Ecuador's ex-President Galo Plaza Lasso, one of the U.N.'s three supervisory commissioners, explained...
...second was, to back Hammarskjold's line-drawing plan. This way offered a chance to stop Nasser without causing public pain to Nasser's pathologically thin-skinned pride and his prestige as the unstoppable leader of Arab nationalism...
...Eastern Mediterranean; the British increased their troop strength in Cyprus to 37,000, considerably more than was needed for quelling Nicosia rioters. The Soviet press, denouncing "imperialist war plans against Lebanon," hinted at sending Russian "volunteers" to help the rebels. Amid these rumblings, Peacemaker Dag Hammarskjold flew on to Cairo this week to explain the advantages of the thin line he had drawn across the Lebanese side of Nasser's Syrian frontier...