Word: dmz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After 22 years of "temporary" truce, the Demilitarized Zone that partitions Korea has become, among other things, a bird sanctuary. The gigantic white-plumed Manchurian crane, an exotic type of which only 30 specimens are known to exist, now winters in the barbed-wire-lined DMZ...
...cannot be looked down upon. (The Koreans' language is no less belligerent. Recent sample: "You are matchlessly brazen-faced.") It was in such a setting that U.S. Major General William Webb last week indignantly presented photos of a tunnel that North Korean infiltrators had secretly dug under the DMZ; Webb's North Korean counterpart just as indignantly replied that the evidence was all fabricated...
...independent, non-Communist South. In the past couple of years, he has not only launched repeated terrorist attacks across the border, but has also built a series of airstrips and naval ports close to the truce line. Recently he shifted two fully armored divisions to positions close to the DMZ. "There has been a change up North," notes Professor Kim Chum Kon, director of the Institute of Security and International Affairs in Seoul. A well-known critic of the Park government, Kim warns that the North "is moving away from a defensive posture" and is "shifting toward the offensive...
Former Marine Sergeant Leonard Budd, who now works for the department of public health in Rowley, Mass., spent 5½ years in North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camps after the truck he was driving near the DMZ was ambushed. Budd feels that aid to Viet Nam should be cut off. "We were right to supply them as long as the supply was needed and they had the initiative to follow through and use it wisely," he said. "But the way they have been wasting it, with their morale as low as it is, and deserting at the rate they...
...lasting power. He holds out hope that ordinary citizens may see through systems and rhetoric, may speak and write the truth to each other, and demand the truth from their leaders. It takes little skill to imagine the furious response Orwell would have provoked on both sides of the DMZ, or what he would have said about the windy self-righteousness of the U.N., or about the excesses of Peking, Moscow, Paris and Washington. The need for an Orwell is more acute now than it was a generation ago. But the tonic power of his writings is still available...