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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...
...first U.N. detachments were to be made up of troops from such states as Tunisia, Morocco, Ghana and Ethiopia...
Among the world's fledgling nations, the U.S. has had no better friends than Tunisia and its anti-Communist President Habib Bourguiba. But as the U.S. pondered for two years whether to build a sorely needed dam in Tunisia, Tunisians grumbled that neutralist nations were getting plenty of money...
...areas in the world could profit more from water than Tunisia's Sahel region, where some 4,000 farmers scratch out a living. But U.S. Development Loan Fund technicians argued that there was not enough water in the Nebana River to warrant building a dam. "It might be no more than a beautiful white elephant," said an observer...
Tunisians insisted that there was enough water underground which could be tapped by wells to supplement the river supply. DLF officials mulled it over. Finally, when President Eisenhower paid his brief visit to Tunisia last December, Bourguiba told him that a Soviet trade mission had suggested that Russia would be only too willing to help build the dam if the U.S. did not. The DLF sent an expert to make a study. He reported tnat the Tunisians were right: there was enough underground water. Last week DLF announced that it would lend Tunisia $18 million, enough to assure the building...