Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flanked by his British, Filipino and Korean colleagues, American Rear Admiral Mark Frudden of the United Nations Command (U.N.C.) took his place at the long table in the Armistice Commission conference room in Panmunjom. He looked up at Major General Han Chu-Kyong, his gray-uniformed North Korean counterpart, and came right to the point: "I have called this meeting for one purpose," he said, "to inform you that our side calls for punishment of those responsible for the murder of the U.N.C. officers...
Betty prevailed on Tuesday, however, as the efficient Ford floor command passed the signal and delegates were ready with hundreds of Ford signs under their seats. Nancy arrived across the hall just before the 16c battle was joined. As she seemed to be gaining decibels in the audio clash, the band broke into TV Star Tony Orlando's hit song Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree. Betty turned to Orlando, who was visiting the Ford family's VIP gallery, and the two danced breezily in the aisle for a few moments. The crowd went wild...
...morning last week, a contingent of eleven American and South Korean officers and security guards were escort ing five Korean workers while they trimmed foliage from a large poplar that partially blocked the view northward from an Allied guardhouse. At 10:45 a.m., according to the U.N. Command's subsequent account, a small group of North Koreans appeared at the site and demanded that the work be stopped. The Americans refused. A few minutes later, a truckload of some 30 additional North Korean troops arrived at the scene. An officer shouted "Chukyo!" -the order to kill. The North Koreans...
...village" of Panmunjom, where 379 vituperous sessions of the Military Armistice Commission have regularly failed to accomplish anything. At a long wooden table that is half in the North Korean and half in the South Korean zone, North Korean and Chinese representatives argue fiercely with Americans representing the U.N. Command. Of the 35,000 truce violations charged to them in the past 23 years, the North Korean commission members have admitted only two. The U.S. and South Korea have admitted fewer than 100 of the nearly 150,000 violations charged to them. The exchange of insults across the table often...
...institutions, received no such break on commissions and in many cases pays even more to buy or sell stock today than before fixed rates were scrapped. W. Perry Neff, a Chemical executive vice president, says the plan would provide "the benefit of a commercial bank's ability to command substantially more attractive commission rates on small transactions than the individual investor could generally hope to achieve...