Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today, ten years after the armistice of Panmunjom, the scars of fighting are partially hidden by underbrush, the trenches and foxholes have caved in, deer and an occasional bear wander where men fought and died for the three years of the Korean...
Elbow & Shove. Though normally quiet, the line is closely guarded on one side by soldiers of Communist North Korea, on the other by the U.N. Command, made up of 600,000 South Koreans, 50,000 U.S. troops, and small detachments from Thailand and Turkey. There is still some bloodshed in the 2,000-yd.-wide demilitarized zone on either side of the line. In their ceaseless search for shell casings and scrap metal, South Korean civilians blunder into old but still murderous minefields. Red agents, trying to sneak south, are shot or captured by U.N. patrols. Last November North Korean...
...shove and elbow each other for the right of way on sidewalks. Communists growl, "Kae seki [son of a bitch]" as they pass, spit at them or step on their toes. Reacting to such petty provocations, one 6-ft., 200-lb. U.S. Navy yeoman strolled up to a North Korean guardhouse and casually leaned against the door while the angry Communist soldiers inside tried in vain...
Since the ceasefire, the Reds have called 119 meetings of the Armistice Commission, and the U.N. side 56. In a total of 800 hours, 10 million words were produced, with the Reds speaking most of them. The U.N. has accused the North Koreans of 2,275 armistice violations and they have admitted only two, both minor, the last one nine years ago. In turn, the Reds have charged 6,063 violations and the U.N. has admitted 76 -the latest being the violation of North Korean airspace by a helicopter last May. It was shot down, and the two U.S. airmen...
...midday series at Spoleto as a long-shot restorative. Each summer since, about 50 similarly dedicated instrumentalists and singers from abroad have turned up for the series on nothing more than Menotti's promise of bed and board. They have performed everything from 13th century motets to Korean twelve-tone, are directed by Georgia-born Pianist Charles Wadsworth, a noted lieder accompanist who performed at one of Jackie Kennedy's White House soir...