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For example, why did the Swedish pilot, after saying he would land at Ndola in a few minutes, suddenly veer away? Why did he fail to pick up altitude on his westward course-whehe knew he was dangerously low? A Swedish journalktJeddyLindstronvsayj s he has Uncovered sensational answers to these mysteries. How he story in itself that begins got them is a with a tip from a French officer in the Katanganese army. "Hammarskjold's death was no accident," the Frenchman said. "He was the victim of a kidnap plot." And then he gave Lindstrom the name of a Belgian already implicated in the murder of Congo leader Patrice Lumumba, . "The Belgian is hiding in Europe," the informant said. "I doubt you will find him." It took months of trailing, but, Lindstrom found his man hiding in terror in a villa on Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Here is the story the fugitive told Lindstrom : A group of European businessmen wanted United Nations Congo because they troops withdrawn from the war-tor- n were preventing Katanga province from seceding from the new African nation. With the UN gone, Katanga could easily achieve independence and the Europeans could win control of its vast natural resources. The Europeans devised a plan to kidnap Hammarskjold. The ransom : withdrawal of UN troops. It was simple to hire a gunman a former lieutenant in the Belgian army and get him aboard. Hammarskjold's plane left Leopoldville just after 5 p.m. (Sept. 16). There was a great deal of confusion, and it was then the man slipped aboard. A. n n jipon thewreckage been thrown from the wreckage Jl. JL Hammarskjold had and had lived for a few hours. An American UN employee was still alive but died before telling what happened. "Hammarskjold's death was an accident," the Belgian URSJVTER-earcharijLca- if I - The gunman slipped into the cockpit and leveled a pistol at the pilot. He ordered the crew to fly to Kolwezi, where the Europeans would seize Hammarskjold as a hostage. The crew seemingly complied, and about 10 p.m. the pilot told a control tower below that airport lights were in sight. The hijacker assumed this was the Kolwezi tower, but he ad been tricked. The pilot had followed a confusing course and was in contact with his original destination, Ndola. According to the Belgian soldier of fortune interviewed by Lindstrom, something in. the control tower's landing instructions must have tipped the hijacker to the pilot's deception. The plane soared low over the tower. Then radio contact was broken, and the plane turned west. cloak-and-dagg- er v I But something went wrong with the plan. Nobody can be sure what, but the Belgian pelieves this happened: carrying United A UN commission began a lengthy investigation, 7 me told Lindstrom. "It was never our intention to kill him. We. think the pilot tried to throw our gunman off balance by making a sudden steep dive. But he was unexpectedly low and crashed into the jungle." The official UN report says 16 bodies were found in the wreckage, all crew members or "UN personnel. Original reports from the scene mentioned 17 bodies. Was there a 17th passenger, an unaccountable mystery passenger? The UN report concedes that security precautions at Xeop6ldville were lax, and it calls the plane's dangerously low altitude an "abnormal fact." On no other pertinent I jjj We asked thousands of doctors, "Do you ever recommend Milk of Magnesia?" The overwhelming majority replied: "Yesr You s&e, Phillips Milk of Magnesia isboth entk4axative-fln(i-a-soothin- g- antacid. 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