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...Marine Corps Major General George Cloud called the 176th meeting of the Military Armistice Commission at Panmunjom and delivered a blistering attack on his Communist opposite number, sleepy-eyed General Chung Hwan Chang, demanding that he curb his "bloodthirsty marauders." Chang insolently replied that North Korea was not at fault and that, undoubtedly, "you have deliberately murdered some of your own personnel in a scheme serving your political purposes." When Cloud displayed a collection of weapons taken from the slain North Korean raiders, Chang picked up"~a pistol and made as if to shoot the American. "Where is your dignity...
...practice the surly manners of their close ally and big brother, Red China. The two sides walked in from opposite ends of the Quonset hut that serves as conference room, sat down without greeting at the table placed squarely on the demarcation line. North Korea's General Chang Chong Whan launched into a vituperative speech accusing the U.S. of repeatedly violating the armistice and plotting to renew the war. U.S. General George Cloud sighed wearily and doodled on a pad during the Chinese and English translations following Chang's speech in Korean. Then Cloud ticked off Communist violations...
Hope Cooke. Everyone was invited to lunch, and 5,000 came. Outsiders were introduced to chang, a "barley beer that works something like an atomic reactor," reports Shepherd, and is drunk through long, hollow bamboo tubes. Sikkimese were equally awed by being introduced to martinis...
...world's greatest surgeons, who had repeatedly refused to separate Chang and Eng in life, had probably been right. Without X rays or other modern diagnostic aids, they could not be sure of how much of the twins' vital organs projected into their unifying band. But the autopsy disclosed that only a small part of Eng's liver projected into the attachment to his twin. If a bold surgeon had arrived in time after Chang's death, he probably could have saved...
...physicians who examined the bodies of the twins wrote: "In my opinion, Chang died of a cerebral clot. Eng probably died of fright as the distended bladder seemed to point to a profound emotional disturbance...