Word: sture
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fund's administrator, Sture Youngren, 57, at first insisted: "There has been no till tapping that I can see." Last week, however, Youngren, a Sacramento insurance executive, told the district attorney's office that he and two of the men indicted for conspiring to murder Wilson had in fact tapped the till of $76,000. U.S. Labor Department investigators promptly made an appointment to meet Youngren at his office that night for further questioning. When they showed up, the office was dark. They found Youngren's body in a rest room, a bullet wound in the head...
...student who managed to escape reached Bukavu to tell his grisly tale. He could not be certain that the killing ended with the deaths of the 18 priests, for ten more missionaries and six nuns from other villages in the area were missing. In Leopoldville, United Nations Congo Boss Sture Linner conferred with Central Congolese Premier Cyrille Adoula, but there was little immediate assistance he could provide; although there were more than 6,000 U.N. soldiers keeping the peace elsewhere in Katanga, they were hundreds of miles away from isolated Kongolo. And reports of incidents were already trickling in from...
Thus, legally, his death left the United Nations headless. In a hurried meeting, several of the U.N.'s 13 under secretaries agreed informally that each should go on running his own department; notice went out from them to Dr. Sture Linner, the U.N.'s Congo chief, that he had full authority over U.N. field activities there. This typical civil servant's decision to hang on could keep day-to-day operations going temporarily, but it would clearly prove unworkable when major policy decisions were required-for instance, whether to reinforce or withdraw the U.N. units fighting...
When the deadline passed, U.N. Congo Chief Sture Linner reported: "At least 104 foreign personnel failed to give any account of themselves." O'Brien de manded compliance. In answer, Katanga's white-led political police arrested O'Brien's deputy, Michel Tombelaine. Reported Linner, with undisguised frustration: "This was the culmination of a long series of wrongful acts by these officers, including the organization of attacks on the United Nations, repeated threats, and incitements to violence." O'Brien issued an ultimatum: remove all remaining white officers, or else. When Tshombe flatly refused, U.N. troops went...
Much of the credit went to the U.N.'s new Congo boss, Dr. Sture Linner, 44, the tall, mild Swede whose friendly new approach was working wonders with the Congolese central government. Unlike India's haughty Rajeshwar Dayal, Linner mixed freely with the Congolese. Said he: "We get along wonderfully well. I happen to like Africans." One result: after long, friendly talks with President Joseph Kasavubu, the U.N. chief was able to move his troops back into the Congo's main port of Matadi; only last March, angry Congolese infantrymen had blasted them out with mortars...