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...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...
...keeping the peace but numbly neutral, wistfully wishing someone could get a government together. "It is hoped that before it is too late the political leadership will make its choice, both wisely and well," said Rajeshwar Dayal, U.N. chief in the Congo, in a formal report. Added Sture Linner, Swedish head of the U.N.'s nonmilitary Congo work: "The situation is getting more and more alarming. We are facing a panorama of disaster.'' Appeals for economic help stream in from the provinces, but no one in Leopoldville can be found to sign the necessary papers; a list...