Word: dmz
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Despite numerous deaths elsewhere in the DMZ, the killings were the first ever at the village of Panmunjom, where negotiators met for two nerve-racking years to work out the Korean ceasefire. President Ford condemned the action as "brutal and cowardly." Secretary of State Kissinger warned: "North Korea must bear full responsibility for all the consequences of its brutal action...
Bitter Rhetoric. In both Washington and Seoul, officials said they were mystified over the reasons for the North Korean attack. It is conceivable that it was simply a local controversy: the hostility along the DMZ is strong enough for the pruning of a tree to become a casus belli (see box). Beyond that, the Korean Communists have been unusually bitter lately in their rhetorical condemnations of the U.S. presence in South Korea. Last week, for example, the North Korean embassy in Peking twice issued warnings that "a critical situation" was developing in Korea and that war could break...
Still, despite combat-ready armies poised on both sides of the DMZ, it seemed unlikely that a larger conflagration would result from last week's incident. In Seoul, reported TIME'S Tokyo Bureau Chief William Stewart, "there was little evidence of tension. The streets are clogged with traffic jams, the restaurants are full and on the sidewalks the crowds savor a late August breeze. The latest incident is shrugged off as worrisome but manageable." And in the DMZ last weekend, the North Koreans offered no resistance when American soldiers went out and chopped down that poplar tree near...
Pentagon and State Department sources anticipate no shortage of volunteers. Several former military men who served along the DMZ in Viet Nam are already looking forward to a return to the fascinating twilight world of "dipsy doodle" radar scans and "big bird" spy satellites. They are also looking forward to pay that could add up to $40,000 or more a year...
...Israeli surveillance system that provides electronic vision from the Gulf of Suez in the south to the Mediterranean in the north, that includes seismic sensors planted as far afield as Lebanon and Syria and that is reputedly far more sophisticated than the old U.S. "McNamara line" along the DMZ in Viet Nam. Among the Israeli improvements on U.S. surveillance gadgetry...