Word: kojo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French charge d'affaires in Accra, it seemed that Ghana's Foreign Minister Kojo Botsio was only trying to be helpful. The Foreign Minister had called him in especially to warn the French of a sinister plot about to take place in neighboring Togoland, which the French have run under trusteeship since World War I. Botsio's intelligence seemed detailed; he knew what roads were to be seized and at what hour, what communications lines would be cut, just who in the Togoland government would be arrested. It was all very convincing, even though the French diplomat...
With the punctuality of a suburban commuter catching the 8:01, the 13,500-ton U.S. cruiser Saint Paul one morning last week slipped through the early morning fog into the North Korean port of Kojo...
Farther south on the east coast the U.S. Marines had also run into unexpected trouble. A Marine battalion was sent toward Kojo, 30 miles southeast of Wonsan, to defend a rail line threatened...
...Diamond Mountain Gang," 3,000 bypassed North Korean soldiers led by a brigadier general. Near Kojo one Marine company allowed nearly 1,000 "refugees" to cut its supply line. When the refugees opened fire, the company suffered heavy casualties...
...Wonsan, U.S. Marines were moving south to reinforce the battered spearhead near Kojo, and a battalion of R.O.K. Marines had landed below Kojo to form the southern arm of a pincers closing in on the "Diamond Mountain Gang." Other U.S. Marines were pushing north from Wonsan toward Hamhung. At Hamhung the Marines might face a bitter fight to keep open supply lines to the R.O.K. I Corps (the 3rd and Capitol Divisions) and to the U.S. 7th Infantry Division, which had completed an unopposed landing at Iwon, 80 miles up the east coast from Hamhung. Originally scheduled to come ashore...