Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dean Acheson's State Department was standing fast against a deal with the Chinese Reds. The U.S. (despite some timid souls in high places, including the Pentagon) was still pledged to destroy all Communist forces in Korea and drive all the way to the Manchurian frontier...
...Chinese Communist air force had a tactical advantage oyer the U.S. Far East Air Force last week. U.S. pilots were under strict orders not to cross the Korea-Manchuria border, or even to fire across it. Communist flyers, under no such handicap, were staging hit & run raids across the frontier...
...Communist members of the Security Council made an open effort to placate the Chinese Communist government. The six nations jointly proposed a resolution consisting chiefly of soothing promises: i) U.N. troops would leave Korea as soon as a stable, democratic government had been established there; 2) the Chinese-Korean frontier and Chinese interests in the "frontier zone" would be protected; 3) any frontier problems would be referred to the U.N. Commission on Korea for settlement...
...Golden Caravan. But there was still one possibility. Many of India's first-rate newsmen rushed to the frontier city of Kalimpong in the hope of getting inside dope from a seven-man Tibetan delegation stranded there on its way to Peking for negotiations with the Chinese Reds. The delegation proved inscrutable, uncommunicative and apparently as uninformed as the newsmen themselves. But from Kalimpong the correspondents began wiring dispatches full of details of battle, and placing the invaders everywhere from 250 miles to 50 miles from Lhasa...
...Korean forces ' defeated farther south, and others might be "ghost units," i.e., North Koreans held in reserve since the beginning of the war and never before met by U.N. forces. But many of the enemy troops were Chinese Communists. Nobody knew just how many Chinese had crossed the frontier, but in northwest Korea Eighth Army Headquarters had identified Chinese army units equivalent in strength to two Chinese divisions, and in the northeast two more Chinese regiments had been firmly identified. Over their loudspeakers U.N. front-line propaganda crews had begun to barrage the enemy with speeches in Chinese...