Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third week of truce talks at Kaesong started in deadlock. The Communists had demanded, and the U.N. flatly refused, to add the withdrawal of foreign troops from Korea to the agenda of the cease-fire talks. After a three-day recess, the Communists backed down again (their first backdown: when they agreed to neutralize Kaesong), settled for a face-saving formula allowing them to reopen the foreign troops issue later...
Except for a passing mention in the Globe, the papers declined to discuss MacArthur's big blunder. Someone must have mumbled to the general that the truce agenda had been agreed upon in Korea, for when he visited a hospital a few minutes later he told more than one soldier, "You'll be interested to know that a truce was signed this morning...
This week the U.N. command reported progress at Kaesong toward an agenda. Once the agenda gets written, the real struggle of the conference will begin...
...wary hope for peace, in its tense preoccupation with the great struggle between freedom and Communism, the world is apt to forget one fact: one of the items on the agenda at Kaesong is a country called Korea and some 30 million people who still live there...
...Russians had consistently blocked the deputies' job, i.e., the writing of an agenda for a Big Four conference. They had turned down a Western invitation to meet in Washington for talks, insisted they would come only if the agenda for the conference included the North Atlantic Treaty and U.S. bases in Europe "as threats to the peace." Said Britain's Davies quietly: the West hoped that Russia might yet accept through the regular "diplomatic channels...