Word: horning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days, Sweden's Major General Carl von Horn, 59, idled beside the crystal pool of Beirut's Hotel Phoenicia. Then marching orders came from the United Nations in New York: by a 10-0 vote, with the Soviet Union abstaining, the Security Council last week approved Secretary-General U Thant's plan to send a U.N. truce team to strife-torn Yemen...
Heading the advance guard, Von Horn took off for Yemen's capital city of San'a with the objective of 1) ending Saudi Arabian aid to the royalist rebels, 2) creating a 25-mile demilitarized strip along the Saudi-Yemeni frontier, and 3) supervising the phased withdrawal of 28,000 Egyptian troops who have spent the last eight months bloodily propping up the republican regime of President Abdullah Sallal against the royalist mountain tribes fighting to restore deposed Imam Mohamed el Badr to his 1,000-year-old throne...
Bombs at Night. A peacemaking veteran with years of experience in the Gaza Strip and the Congo, Von Horn is not sanguine about his chances in Yemen. On a brief visit in April, he discovered that royalist tribesmen had ambushed some 40 Egyptian soldiers, killed them all and stuffed their severed heads inside their slashed-open bellies. At the time, Von Horn gloomily concluded that the war could go on ten years. In New York, U Thant blandly expects it all to be over in "two to four months...
...week before Von Horn's arrival, the desperate Egyptians made air strikes against Saudi Arabia. A dawn raid on the seaport of Jizan killed 25 and wounded 300 sleeping inhabitants. The Egyptian excuse: renewed royalist activity must mean renewed military aid from Saudi Arabia...
Come Blow Your Horn is a comedy of props. Frank Sinatra's Manhattan apartment, which seems to have been decorated on a dare by a Playboy Club Bunny, has more doors than Mother Hubbard's cupboard, all with the wrong people on the other side. And for telephones Frank has a red one, a black one, a Princess, an antique French, a Swedish one-piece, and a mobile unit in the Buick, all with the wrong people on the other end of the line...