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...help he could get and his country needed all the stability it could muster, Lumumba jumped up and down in an insensate feud with the U.N. Compared with Lumumba, Hammarskjold confided to associates, the most wild-eyed of fanatics he had run into in the Middle East during the Suez and Lebanon crises were "nice, quiet, conservative old gentlemen...
...expected to holler about help even while accepting and needing it. Already nearly 400 U.N. and World Health Organization technicians are at work in the Congo. The port of Matadi has been put back into operation under the supervision of U.S. General Raymond Wheeler, who cleared the Suez Canal for the U.N. Last week, obviously contemplating years of close U.N. involvement in Congo affairs, Hammarskjold produced a terse memorandum outlining the structure of a long-term U.N. civilian mission to the Congo which would supply the Congo's ill-educated, inexperienced Cabinet with experts in ten fields from finance...
Iran's oil need not travel through Nasser's Suez Canal. It can be unloaded at Israel's Red Sea port of Elath, on the Gulf of Aqaba. This week a new, 16-in. pipeline across the Negev desert will connect Elath with Israel's big refinery at Haifa. Designed to carry 1,700,000 tons of oil a year, it can in time be stepped up to a 5,800,000-ton capacity. Since Israel itself uses only 1,500,000 tons of oil a year, the Israel pipeline offers the possibility of sending Middle...
...that the man who writes the speeches is still the same"). While Nixon took on special presidential commissions and presided over the Cabinet in the days of Ike's illnesses. Lodge carefully steered the U.S. and the West through U.N. world tempests from Indo-China to Budapest to Suez. Nixon's tough, unflinching "kitchen conference" with Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow last summer was matched by Lodge's assignment as Khrushchev's official companion during his U.S. tour. (Khrushchev's favorite cry: "Where's my capitalist?") Both men have learned by first hand experience...
...Home resounded once more over a British battle. Press and politicians of all parties were up in arms because Prime Minister Macmillan appointed the 14th Earl of Home to the key post of Foreign Secretary. The earl was Macmillan's replacement for Selwyn Lloyd, faithful veteran of Suez and scores of disarmament sessions, who after five years at the foreign office moved on to the treasury as Chancellor of the Exchequer...