Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some day must be made. How the U.S. extricates itself from Viet Nam is, for Americans and, in particular, for both political parties, the most important piece in the overall puzzle. Many lives and large issues of policy are at stake. Far more than was the case with the Korean War, how the Viet Nam conflict ends is apt to affect for years both the image Americans have of themselves and the image that the world has of the U.S. The U.S. should not leave Viet Nam in a way that divides the nation bitterly at home, gives excessive comfort...
...Rochester, Minn. Born into one of the nation's best-known medical families (his grandfather, uncle and father founded the clinic in 1889), Mayo earned recognition as an abdominal surgeon-and political note as well for exposing Communist brainwashing methods as a delegate to the U.N. during the Korean...
...predictably tough, reached a peak last year when the senior member on the U.N. side, U.S. Major General Richard Ciccolella, violated past practice and started addressing his opposite number directly with such salty salutations as "Pak, you bastard ..." Once, when Ciccolella stared out a window while the North Korean side was trying to make a point from a chart, North Korean Major General Pak Chung Kuk admonished him in passable English: "Look at the goddam chart...
...meetings sometimes run as long as nine hours, the confrontation is known informally as "the battle of the bladder." Only the two senior members speak, and they do not speak to each other but through intermediaries, communicating only by glares. Everything is translated not only into English and Korean, but into Chinese as well; four Chinese delegates are present at almost every meeting, with Mao badges displayed on their tunics...
...caught by surprise in Korea, once by the invasion from the North and again when the Chinese crossed the Yalu. Lately, in response to North Korea's new aggressiveness, it has increased its defenses along the DMZ to counter infiltration moves, has examined every possible North Korean strategy and has kept a close intelligence watch on the movements of North Korean troops and armor. So far, North Korea has confined itself to nasty words and restricted infiltration and sniping. There is, however, increasing concern that Kim II Sung may be planning something more substantial that could effectively write finis...