Word: moroccos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter of hours, Hammarskjold had pledges of troops from Ghana, Guinea, Morocco, Tunisia and Ethiopia; the first Ghanaian detachment was in Leopoldville within 24 hours. From Sweden, Ireland, Liberia and the Mali Federation, he got promises of enough more troops to swell the U.N. force to 12,000 men by the end of the month. From Jerusalem, Hammarskjold dispatched lean-jawed Swedish Major General Carl Carlsson von Horn, 47, U.N. Truce Enforcement Chief along the Arab-Israeli borders, to take com mand in the Congo. To meet an impending public-health disaster created by the departure of all the Belgian...
...reminder that much experience has been gained since the famed 1948-49 Berlin airlift. In 1958 the Air Force transported 8,000,000 Ibs. of equipment and 8,000 troops to Lebanon; last February it airlifted 1,000 tons of supplies to earth quake-ravaged Agadir in Morocco and, in recent months, gave a repeat performance in devastated Chile. Says Colonel Merritt in proud understatement: "It's just routine...
Disgorged Troops. The huge U.S. operation, directed from U.S.A.F.E. headquarters in Wiesbaden, West Germany, delivered hundreds of tons of flour from U.S. depots in France and West Germany, ferried in troops from Ghana, Morocco, Tunisia and Guinea. U.S. planes touched down at Cairo, swallowed up 650 blue-helmeted Swedish troops from the UNEF force at Gaza, disgorged them again 2,700 miles away in Leopoldville. Out of the shuttling intercontinental planes came food rations, Jeeps, heavy trucks, communications equipment, dismantled light planes. At the request of the U.N. command, the U.S. flew in ten Douglas C-47s, turned them over...
...first U.N. detachments were to be made up of troops from such states as Tunisia, Morocco, Ghana and Ethiopia...
...Delegate-General for Algeria, Paul Delouvrier, obviously preparing Algerian European settlers for other possibilities, broadcast last week that "it would be a mistake to think . . . the discussions will be solely military. The very fact that the combatants are installed on the territory of other countries [Tunisia and Morocco] leads to the presumption that things will go beyond the simply military stage...