Word: mckeown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...returned the kickoff at the beginning of the second half 47 yards before Bob McKeown caught him from behind to prevent a possible touchdown. He also made three pass receptions...
...BONNIE MCKEOWN Idaho Falls, Idaho
...capital in the Congo River basin, life for most went on at its slow-motion pace in the sticky heat; but the Royale, the U.N.'s seven-story main Congo headquarters, was alive with activity. Aides scurried in and out of the office of burly Irish General Sean McKeown, chief of the U.N. Congo military force, who was busy reading reports on the fighting and firing off fresh orders to the air and ground commanders in Katanga itself, 1,000 miles away...
...patrols seldom strayed far from these redoubts; the rest of Elisabethville belonged exclusively to Katanga's soldiers, black and white, who wandered the streets or stood guard. There was something unreal about the whole thing. As the U.N.'s General McKeown put it, after a flying visit to Elisabethville early in the week, "We are not fighting a battle in the usual sense." It was masterful understatement...
...great concern echoed at U.N. headquarters over the Congolese central government's 1,600-man force gathered at Bumba by General Joseph Mobutu, apparently poised for an attack on Gizenga's Eastern province. To stop him, new U.N. Military Commander General Sean McKeown flew to Mobutu's bush headquarters, extracted a promise that there would be no invasion. This was highly convenient to the Gizenga regime, for, with Mobutu's immobilization now assured, they were ready for their dash deep into Kasai. The target was Luluabourg, just as the U.N.'s tipsters had been warning...