Andrew W. Cordier, executive assistant to United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, was today named a member of the special “Mount Scopus team. “He is leaving for the Middle East to help untangle the Jordan-Israel dispute in the area.
Several months ago, Mr. Hammarskjold appointed Dr. Francisco Urrutia of Colombia as his personal representative in the Mount Scopus dispute. Later Mr. Hammarskjold named Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, one of his Under-Secretaries, as a member of the “Mount Scopus team.”Now, apparently as a result of the May 26 slaying of Col. George A. Flint, chairman of the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission, Mr. Hammarskjold was sending still a third emissary to the trouble area.
(Informed sources in Israel said today that the delay in publication of the anticipated United Nations report on the Mount Scopus battle which took the lives of Col. George A.Flint and four Israel policemen was due to a UN effort to draft a “balanced” picture to avoid a blow to the prestige of King Hussein of Jordan. These sources predicted that the “balance” would be achieved by charging “Jordan irregulars” rather than the Jordan army with responsibility for the slaying of Col. Flint.)
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