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...confused and battered South Korean army was vainly trying to form a new defense line. All along the road the general's car brushed through hundreds of South Korean soldiers and mobs of tired, frightened refugees. Many of the soldiers saluted and cheered as the American convoy passed. Even the refugees stopped and cheered. Said MacArthur's chief of staff, Major General Edward M. Almond: "The troops are ready and willing to take orders if someone is on hand to tell them what to do and how to do it." But in most of the South Korean army...
French Commander in Chief Marcel Carpentier aims to sweep Ho Chi Minh's men from the lower, heavily populated Mekong and Red River valleys. These are the best rice-producing areas and consequently the best source of rebel supply. By airlift and truck convoy, the French maintain a line of forts at the Chinese border, where aid could flow...
...black-scarred coal strips and tipples of 70 independent coal mines, owners and a scattering of non-union diggers worked warily, with loaded shotguns and rifles close at hand. A convoy of 15 loaded coal trucks was ambushed in hilly Centre County, attacked with rifle fire and stones before the drivers could rumble on to safety. At Grassflat, a $10,000 tipple of the Junedale Coal Co. was blown up by a 50-lb. charge of dynamite. One non-union mine owner drove off marauding strikers with a brace of .45 automatics; another was stabbed during an argument with U.M.W...
This occurred in spite of 15 policemen detailed to convoy pedestrians and keep the traffic moving. A handful of city engineers watched yesterday's mess and suggested...
...Stalin School" at Huk headquarters his instructors had taught him "Communism, songs like the Red Flag and the International, and all about Communist success in Russia and China." Awaiting trial in the Nueva Ecija provincial jail, he related how, before the Quezon ambush, his group had raided a convoy of ten trucks without harming anyone. "Why didn't you loot the Quezon party in the same way and let them go?" I asked. He replied with the Huk view of the class war: "People in trucks are not our mortal enemies. People in passenger cars...