Word: command
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...been one of Léopoldville's biggest troublemakers. At Nkrumah's bidding, he shot about the Congolese capital lining up all possible support for Colonel Mobutu's archfoe, deposed Premier Patrice Lumumba, and was helped in his endeavors by the curious policy of the U.N. Command's Rajeshwar Dayal who offered U.N. protection to virtually everyone save working officials of the Congo government. Last month Welbeck was declared persona non grata by Congolese President Joseph Kasavubu, but refused to leave. Confident that the Congo army would never attack his U.N. guards, Welbeck acted as though...
Last week once again the U.N. Command inscrutably chose to come to Welbeck's aid. Soon after Nussbaumer's ultimatum, the U.N. sent reinforcements that raised the U.N. guard at the Ghanaian embassy to 170 Tunisian soldiers. The Congo was represented by a handful of military police headed by busting Security Inspector Henri N'Gampo, which frequently retreated behind a hedge to stuff his pipe with bangi, a Congolese form of marijuana...
...Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold told the General Assembly that the U.N. Congo command was virtually bankrupt, largely because of the refusal of the Soviet Union to contribute, and would have to suspend operations unless someone (a euphemism for the U.S.) anteed up $22 million forthwith...
...Country. Her dark, handsomely pliant voice has none of the whisky rawness long idolized in such untutored folk singers as Lead Belly or Bessie Smith. But what she may lack in sheer, gutsy exuberance, Odetta more than makes up with immense power, a fine range, and an amazing command of nuances and inflections...
Tiros II has two cameras. Both are water-glass size, containing midget tubes that impress electronic photographs on magnetic tape. The pictures are sent down to earth on command from stations in California and New Jersey...