Word: katanga
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...slim, sandy-haired Hammarskjold marched past a Katanga honor guard, a crowd of several hundred Belgians and Africans set up a cry of "Down with the United Nations." At the sight of the 240 Swedish troops,* the U.N. advance guard who, Dag said, were under "my exclusive, personal authority," the crowd jeered again...
...Katanga jeered and Belgians fretted, most of the rest of the world cheered. New York Times Reporter James Reston called Hammarskjold "one of the great natural resources in the world today." A Netherlands editorialist saw him as a "supranational figure," Italy as "a world-famed arbitrator . . . who imposes his own will," Japan as "the bridge between the reality of the world situation and the ideal of world peace...
...closeted with the four small-nation members (currently Ceylon, Tunisia, Argentina, Ecuador) of the eleven-man Security Council. Tunisia's dapper Mongi Slim assumed the role of floor leader in the fight for the resolution Hammarskjold wanted-one which would press the Belgians to withdraw "immediately" from Katanga but would promise Tshombe that their replacement by U.N. forces would not compromise Katanga's secession effort...
...representatives of nine African states had joined Hammarskjold in his 38th floor dining room looking out over the thrusting towers of midtown Manhattan. Some of the Africans angrily demanded that the U.N. fight its way into Katanga. Trading on his status as a fellow Afro-Asian, Tunisia's Slim forcefully argued the Hammarskjold line that an appeal to force would lead to a Security...
...thunderous noises could be heard offstage. The Russian press and radio breathed fire and rattled rockets, accusing the U.S. and the "imperialist West" of closing ranks behind Belgium in a plot to steal rich Katanga from the Congo. In Ghana, President Kwame Nkrumah lashed out with a threat to join with Guinea's Sekou Toure as allies of Lumumba in a march on Katanga...