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...plane crossed the Suez Canal and was over Sinai before the captain sighted what he thought were Egyptian MIGs flying wingtip to wingtip with him. Actually, the planes were Israeli Phantoms alerted by radar. The Israelis were more sensitive than usual to any invasion of their air space that day, for two reasons. One was an odd rumor that Arab fedayeen were planning some sort of kamikaze raid on Israel using a disguised civilian airliner. The other was a more substantial report that a commando of trained Al-Fatah guerrillas was flying from Libya to Cairo en route to camps...
...year to administer the territory, and it brings practically nothing in return. Djibouti's fine natural harbor on the Gulf of Aden, near the entrance to the Red Sea, has some strategic value. It also used to produce revenue as a refueling stop for ships plying the Suez Canal. But since the canal was closed, shipping traffic through Djibouti has fallen by 80%, and the profits have vanished. So have thousands of jobs...
...sees the former Secretary-General as a man supremely equipped with the inner resources, courage, stamina and imperturbable tact to make the U.N. work. The book uses considerable inside knowledge as it follows Hammarskjöld through every major crisis of his day: McCarthyism, the aftermath ot Korea, Suez, Hungary, Lebanon, Algeria, the Congo...
...each the Secretary-General, who once jokingly called himself a "secular pope," was quick to assert the authority of the world organization. At the height of the Suez crisis in '56, he dictated the first three pages of a plan for a special emergency force during lunch, had it completed before dinner. Over British and French vetoes in the Security Council and a Soviet offer to deploy its own troops, he managed to get it ratified by a majority of the General Assembly. U.N.E.F. was his most successful innovation. It served as the model for international forces...
Pearson was first known outside Canada as a diplomat, the man who won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to resolve the 1956 Suez crisis. At home he presided over Canada's government at a time when Quebec was threatening to split the Canadian confederation -and responded with flexibility, imagination and skill. Although his government was plagued by scandal-which never touched him personally-it was also extraordinarily productive. Among other things, it produced Canada's comprehensive universal medicare program, and Canada's first national flag...