Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dipping-ln. In Seoul, Korea, after a crowd and a lot of cops gathered while a suspect re-enacted the holdup of a watch store, six cases of pocket-picking were reported...
After Forrestal's death, Symington fought a continuing battle with his successor, Louis Johnson, to keep up Air Force group strength against the pressures of shrinking, pre-Korea defense budgets. Symington kept insisting that the U.S. needed 70 air groups for minimum safety, but he saw the Air Force dwindle to 50-odd. Early in 1950, when the new budget trimmed the Air Force to 48 groups, Symington resigned in protest...
Where U.S. troops encamp overseas for any length of time, two things often occur: coveted, cut-rate PX goods appear in the local black market, and the American boys find their way into the hearts of the local girls. South Korea, with its 50,000 G.I.s, is no exception: some $90,000 in U.S. goods vanishes monthly into Korea's flourishing black market, and in Korea no fewer than 575 Korean girls are wives of U.S. servicemen...
...wives were quick to retort. Said one heatedly: "Some of those Korean marriages are just sordid commercial arrangements. Many G.I.s who marry Korean girls never attempt to have their wives follow them when they leave Korea. The marriage was just a black-market partnership in the first place." A PX official backed up part of her complaint: "I have seen a Korean wife walk out laden with packages-and be back within an hour to buy more...
...Past. Twenty-five years ago, the U.S. proudly ended a 19-year Marine occupation in Haiti; the return of the Marines is ironical but seemingly vital. Colonel Heinl (Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima, Korea), Yaleman ('37) and Marine historian, arrived last January with red mustache, pith helmet and fluent French to find the Haitian army in horrifying shape...