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... inWorld War II and then with the UN in the Congo, New Guinea, and theDominican Republic. He had also spent long periods in the Middle East, knewthat UNEF’s mandate was “flimsy at best,” and that ... succession—sevenIsraelis died and twelve were wounded. “The notepad is open and the hand iswriting,” Eshkol told the generals who demanded reprisals, assuring them thatnone of the murders were forgotten and would ... dowith those forces, where to put them and how to command them, and whetherthey should be there at all.Gen. Muhammad Fawzi, austere and by-the-book, had commanded theEgyptian Military Academy...