Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Role. The man whose eyes were fixed most intently on Kaesong was General Matthew Bunker Ridgway. Rarely had a military commander found himself in the kind of situation that Ridgway was in this week. It was Matt Ridgway, successor to the late General "Johnnie" Walker, who had rallied the Eighth Army against the overwhelming Chinese onslaught last year, and turned his troops north again. To Ridgway, as to any soldier, the best way to finish the job in Korea could only be to defeat the enemy. Ridgway knew that, with more ground strength in Korea-and perhaps with air blows...
...five jeeps and five trucks bearing white flags. In addition to their three negotiators, they would bring interpreters, "reception personnel and assistants." They evidently expected to act as hosts in Kaesong, although the town was well in front of their main positions and had been regarded by the Eighth Army as in no man's land. Ridgway let that pass, but he announced a "neutral zone" of five miles' radius around Kaesong, which told the Reds clearly that the area was dominated by the Eighth Army...
There were no handshakes, no salutes. After an awkward pause, Kinney opened the meeting by saying that they might as well get down to business. At lunch time, the Reds proffered vodka, beer and candy, but none of the U.N. men accepted. They ate their own box lunches. The Eighth Army cameraman took motion pictures; so did the Reds...
...three colonels: Andrew Kinney of the U.S. Air Force, James Murray of the U.S. Marine Corps (both from General Ridgway's joint planning group in Tokyo) and Lee Soo Yong of the South Korean army. There were two pilots and a copilot, a mechanic, two interpreters, an Eighth Army photographer. No allied newsman went to Kaesong. A large throng of U.S. and other U.N. reporters were left behind at Munsan. If the negotiators ran into foul play (which was not seriously expected), allied ground forces around Munsan were ready to smash forward...
...when one of his brothers accidentally shot him with an arrow. For about the next 40 years, his right eye did double duty, then it failed him; ten years ago, Thurber underwent five extremely painful operations on it for cataract and trachoma. The eye has since had one-eighth vision, not enough for a 56-year-old writer to get himself around with safety. The shins of the long, gangling (6 ft. 1½ in., 154 Ibs.) Thurber bear a mass of scars from collisions with coffee tables...