Word: mckeown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan, the U.N.'s Hammarskjold sent cable after cable pleading for troop contributions from Mexico, Iraq, Iran and India, but got solid pledges from nobody. The new U.N. Congo Commander, Ireland's Lieut. General Sean McKeown, warned that the present 20,000-man force was the "bare minimum requirement" to prevent civil war. At week's end Hammarskjold gloomily informed the Security Council that unless replacement troops were forthcoming, he might have to propose "liquidation of the force, and in consequence, the entire United Nations Congo operation...