Word: ndola
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United Nations, a force which included Washington Bureau Chief John Steele, Chicago TIME Chief Murray Gart and Correspondents Fred Gruin, Bert Meyers and Bill Smith covered the U.N. crisis. From correspondents in Bonn, Moscow, London, Paris, Tokyo, Belgrade, Vienna, Cracow, Leopoldville and Ndola came reports of reaction to the situation. At the TIME & LIFE Building, Associate Editor Edward Hughes pulled together all of the facts surrounding the U.N.'s hours of trial for the cover story, edited by Henry Grunwald. For Writer Hughes, 40, onetime TIME correspondent in Africa and Germany, the international tensions of recent weeks have provided...
...slight body, in a mahogany casket covered with the blue-and-yellow flag of Sweden, rested amid a sea of fresh flowers in St. Andrews' United Church of Ndola. Four sentries stood at attention, as those who could reach the remote outpost paid their last respects. Among them was the man Hammarskjold had flown to Ndola to see: Katanga's stubborn President Moise Tshombe, whose troops were battling U.N. forces less than 100 miles away. Dressed in a grey suit and somber tie, Tshombe walked in briskly, placed a wreath of white lilies on the coffin, stood motionless...
Unexpected War. The events surrounding Hammarskjold's fatal flight to Ndola were nearly as bizarre as the Congo political scene itself. From the Congolese capital of Leopoldville, Hammarskjold had watched in agony for four days as the fighting in Katanga grew worse. The U.N. force was stymied, and there was growing danger that the left-wing army of Congolese Vice Premier Antoine Gizenga might invade Katanga and start in earnest the civil war Hammarskjold had acted to avoid...
From his temporary headquarters on the sixth floor of the U.N.'s Le Royale building in Leopoldville, Hammarskjold cabled Tshombe suggesting a meeting in Ndola to arrange a ceasefire. That afternoon Tshombe agreed...
Tshombe had arrived in Ndola in the late afternoon and remained at the airport waiting for Hammarskjold. At 10:40 p.m., a plane bearing British Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Lord Lansdowne, who had agreed to act as intermediary, landed at Ndola. (Newsmen, mistaking him for Hammarskjold, sent out a flash that the Secretary-General had landed on schedule.) At 11:10 p.m., Tshombe and Lansdowne left the airport, and went to their quarters to sleep. Hammarskjold's plane was still unheard from...