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None of the three Vienna attackers carried identification either. But Austrian police were able to determine their names and ages: Abdel Aziz Merzoughi, 25; Ben Ahmed Chaoval, 25; and Mongi Ben Ab-dollah Saadqoui, 26. One of the two who were captured replied to questions in Arabic and claimed that he came from Lebanon. Wounded in the abdomen, he is expected to survive. The other was struck in the thorax and was in a coma. Austrian police said that all three were Arabs...
...Died. Mongi Slim, 61, Tunisian diplomat who in 1961 became the first African to be elected president of the U.N. General Assembly; of liver disease; in Tunis. A onetime revolutionary who was twice jailed by the French during his country's struggle for freedom, Slim nevertheless ranked as one of Africa's more moderate, pro-Western diplomats. With Tunisia's independence in 1956 he became simultaneously Ambassador to the U.S., Ambassador to Canada and Tunisia's permanent representative to the U.N.; in 1961, by a vote of 96-0, he was elected president of the General...
...West and scrapping the oil embargo, which was costing each of them $500,000 a day in lost revenues. "It is time for the Arabs to stop blaming the United States for their failures and blame themselves, for the blame lies with us," said Tunisia's Justice Minister Mongi Slim...
...last week, as Tunisia's Mongi Slim rapped his olive-wood presidential gavel to adjourn the Assembly, the U.N. was probably in better shape than at any time since Hammarskjold's best days. Russia had scored virtually no gains in the Assembly, suffered some severe defeats. Most notable was Moscow's failure to seat Red China as a U.N. member and to impose its troika scheme for a three-man U.N. executive, which would have paralyzed the world body's operations...
Meanwhile. Assembly President Mongi Slim bustled about the corridors, dickering, discussing and listening to all sides of the unsettled argument over the succession to Dag Hammarskjold's vacant post of Secretary-General. The Soviet plan no longer encompassed merely a troika, a three-headed executive. Now Russian Delegate Valerian Zorin was talking about a four-man body-two neutralists (African and Asian), a Communist and a Westerner -each, presumably, with a veto over the others that would render the whole operation useless. Said one U.N. diplomat: "You could call them the four Marxist Brothers...