Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a hearty lunch of hot dogs with chili, Admiral Joy climbed into his freshly painted jeep one day last week and started out from Kaesong's U.N. headquarters ("Everlasting Stability Terrace") to the conference building two blocks down the road. On the way, the admiral's jeep passed within a few feet of a column of 83 Chinese soldiers, heavily armed with mortars, machine guns, rifles, pistols, grenades. It was a flagrant violation of assurances given by the Reds to General Matthew Ridgway last month that they would respect a neutral zone around Kaesong, would keep armed...
...this point, chief U.N. Negotiator Vice Admiral Joy said: "I propose the agenda be adopted." North Korean General Nam II chimed in, "We agree." The agreed agenda: 1) establishing a military demarcation line between the two armies, 2) setting up an authority to supervise the truce, 3) exchange of prisoners...
...next session, the negotiation got down to Item No. 1. Vice Admiral Joy produced two maps showing the demarcation line the U.N. wanted. He and Nam II bent over the table, their heads almost touching as they studied the maps. The two sides clashed almost immediately. The Communists wanted to draw the demarcation line along the old North-South Korean boundary, the 38th parallel. If they could swing this, they would be able to trumpet to the world that the war had ended where it began; it would also win for the Reds much valuable real estate, for U.N. units...
...Joy insisted on stopping the war roughly at the present battle line, which is well fortified and more easily defensible than the parallel...
...more than 50 of his 60 years, Sarnoff has been doing just that. Driving through obstacles is his habit, his joy, his bitter necessity. He says: "There are three drives that rule most men: money, sex and power." Nobody doubts that Sarnoff's ruling drive is power. Says a deputy: "There is no question about it, he is the god over here...