Word: lebanon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Army's Lieut. General Paul D. Adams, 54, a West Pointer ('28) who is proud of his rating as both a paratrooper and a combat infantryman. Adams, who will be promoted to full general for the job, commanded the land forces during the U.S. intervention in Lebanon in 1958, and he knows how hard it is to get troops to the right place at the right time. Says he: "The unified command is the only way to get the job done...
...Force into Egypt in the wake of the abortive British, French and Israeli invasion-and for the first time the world saw the strange sight of oddly assorted volunteers from various countries (Danes, Norwegians, Colombians) in blue helmets serving as an international army. Then came the U.N. "presence" in Lebanon and Jordan in 1958, the U.N.'s representative in Laos in 1959, last year's intervention in the Congo crisis...
...support from the U.A.R.'s Gamal Abdel Nasser, who opposes the Soviet demand for two Germanys since, if he sanctioned the principle of partition, it would prejudice the Arab case against Israel. Six other neutrals showed some understanding of what nonalignment means, and backed Nehru: Burma, Ceylon, Cyprus, Lebanon, Nepal and Tunisia...
...Ministers: Guinea's Beavogui Lansana, Saudi Arabia's Ibraham Sowail and Iraq's Hashim Jawad. Prime Ministers: Afghanistan's Sardar Mohammed Baud, the Algerian F.L.N.'s Youssef Ben Khedda, Burma's U Nu, Ceylon's Mme. Bandaranaike, India's Nehru and Lebanon's Saeb Salaam. Presidents: Cuba's Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado, Cyprus' Archbishop Makarios, Ghana's Nkrumah, Indonesia's Sukarno, Mali's Keita, Somalia's Adben Abdullah Osman, the Sudan's Ibrahim Abboud, Tunisia's Bourguiba and the U.A.R.'s Nasser...
...Burma, Ceylon, Ghana, Guinea, Ethiopia, Sudan, India, Indonesia, Yemen, Cambodia, Mali, Morocco, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, United Arab Republic, Lebanon, Algerian Provisional Government (F.L.N.), Tunisia, Cyprus, Afghanistan, Cuba, Iraq, Yugoslavia; observer nations: Brazil, Bolivia. Possible participant: Cyrille Adoula of the Congo...