Word: kaesong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strategic hill. Allied warships plastering Wonsan harbor for the 161st straight day encountered more powerful shore batteries. U.N. jet fighters were pounced on by MIGs, freshly equipped with wing fuel tanks which would enable them to operate far behind allied lines. Hundreds of Russian-made tanks maneuvered north of Kaesong...
...delegates, the Kaesong talks are apt to be hazardous business. At every conference session, the Communists arrive in nine jeeps. The Red jeep drivers tear up the two-lane dirt road in Kaesong like Keystone cops chasing bathing beauties. As each jeep reaches the meeting ground, the driver stomps on the brakes, the delegates jump out and do their best to dodge the other onrushing jeeps (so far, there have been no casualties). Once rid of his passengers, the driver backs up to a parking space, disdaining to look behind. Usually, several drivers head for the same space...
...Over the Kaesong talks fell an ominous shadow; it was cast by a massive Red buildup. Allied airmen reported as many as 1,000 Red trucks a night moving down the coastal roads. The Reds were increasing their number of antiaircraft guns (which have been shooting down an average of three to five U.N. planes a day). U.N. air crews spotted an estimated 300 tanks 55 miles north of Kaesong, poised to swoop down on Seoul along the same invasion route they used 13 months...
...army was waiting for word from Kaesong, and ready for anything. So, too, apparently, were the Communist armies beyond the Imjin...
Double Cross? Next day, General Ridgway himself jeeped over to try to talk to the newsmen. He explained that they could not go to Kaesong until the talks were really "on track." Meanwhile, the matter of press coverage had "high priority." But at the next briefing session, things were worse than ever. Army and Navy officers did such a bad job describing what had happened that it was plain neither had been at the second truce meeting. A few reporters, who had been drinking too much for their own good, hooted derisively. U.P. Correspondent Earnest Hoberecht angrily cried: "General Ridgway...