Word: 38th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...west that trouble lingered. Both the U.N. and the Reds proposed to hold Kaesong, the ancient, ruined town where the truce talks started. Apparently, the Reds wanted to keep Kaesong for face-saving reasons: it was the only sizable town they still held south of the 38th parallel. The U.N. wanted to keep it out of Red hands because the town and the neighboring heights control the western approach to Seoul...
General Hodes and Admiral Burke, the U.N. subcommitteemen, made three efforts to break the Kaesong deadlock. First, they repeated a previous offer to evacuate U.N.-held islands north of the 38th; they pointed out that this, plus their already proffered withdrawals on the central and eastern fronts, should be adequate compensation for Kaesong. The Reds refused. Next, the U.N. negotiators offered to pass the buffer zone directly through Kaesong-in other words, to make it a neutral city held by neither side. Again, the Reds refused. Finally, in mild desperation, the U.N. suggested that the line be left to drift...
...polls have shown, wrote Gallup in this week's New York Times Magazine, that a third of American adults do not know that Dean Acheson is Secretary of State. In one series of questions (Where is Manchuria? Formosa? What is the 38th parallel? The Atlantic pact? Who is Chiang Kaishek? Tito?), almost a fifth of the people asked couldn't answer a single one. Most of them, said he, had exaggerated ideas of the power of A-bombs, thought a few could erase a whole nation, and thus had no idea of the cost...
Later in the week, when B-29s struck the Sunchon railway bridge, the MIG pilots followed the bombers almost down to the 38th parallel, and brought down one of the eight...
...towns south of the 38th parallel not held...