Word: chorwon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acres of well-kept land 80 miles northeast of Seoul, Korea, stands the village of New Chorwon, where some 500 people make a living from crops of potatoes, wheat, cabbage and barley. It is not an unusual village-except in being a village at all. Four years ago, the site was war-ravaged wasteland and the villagers hopeless wanderers. What gave them life was the gift of a 68-year-old Philadelphia lawyer who does not believe in Christmas presents but does believe in President Eisenhower's idea that foreign aid can be on a person-to-person basis...
...French got regular reports from CARE: when the first crops were harvested, when the first houses were completed, what special problems came up. Korea's winter is too harsh for farming, so French bought a machine to make straw rope for the village to use and barter. New Chorwon called it The Graham French-CARE Straw Rope and Bag Factory...
Casualties were severe on both sides. When the weather cleared and U.N. planes began raking the flow of Chinese reinforcements, the attacks petered out. The Hwachon dam and reservoir (supplying most of Seoul's electric power) and the U.N. communications hubs at Chorwon and Kumhwa, which had seemed threatened under the first impetus of enemy attack, were safe. A new U.N. first line was established at the base of the Kumsong salient. But the salient itself was gone. At the cost of thousands of lives, the proposed armistice line was a little straighter-in the Communists' favor...
Outpost Harry, where the week's heavy fighting started, juts deep into enemy territory and towers over U.N. positions on the Chorwon Valley floor. Should the Chinese capture Harry, the U.N. would have to move its main line of resistance back as much as two miles. The day after the Chinese struck at the hill, the order came down from Eighth Army Commander Maxwell Taylor: "Hold Harry at all cost...
...ugly, bare-hill mass with a flattened top, Old Baldy juts out awkwardly in front of the Eighth Army's stabilized, heavily fortified MLR (main line of resistance), a few miles west of Chorwon on the western front. U.S. troops captured Old Baldy last May. Since then it has changed hands more than once, but-up to last week-it was held by units of the U.S. 7th Division, with South Americans of the Colombia battalion attached. Baldy had some value as an observation point, but it was vulnerable to Communist attack on three sides. Mostly it had prestige...