Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Already the longest war ever fought by the U.S., Viet Nam now ranks as its fifth costliest (after World War II, with 291,557 battle deaths; the Civil War, with 220,938; World War I, with 53,402; and Korea, with 33,629). With the killed-in-action rate running at roughly 200 per week, Viet Nam should move past Korea into fourth place some time this spring-unless the negotiators in Paris make dramatic progress. The war has been far more expensive for native combatants. South Viet Nam has suffered 73,118 military dead in the past eight years...
...Korean armistice talks, which have dragged on through 275 sessions, have provided some classic examples of the use of punctilio to shatter a rival's composure. At one of the first meetings, North Korea's General Nam II provided himself with a particularly high chair and seated U.S. Admiral C. Tur ner Joy on a low one. Joy saw to it that the chairs were of equal height from then on. When the allies set out a small United Nations table flag, the North Koreans followed suit-only theirs was six inches taller. In this case, however...
...DEAN ACHESON: Not until the end of 1950 had the Secretary of State with his senior aides ever sat down with the Secretary of Defense and the Chiefs of Staff to take counsel on a common problem, then the situation in Korea. In the course of those meetings General of the Army Omar Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Secretary of State entered into a secret treaty. They agreed that henceforth between them the phrases "from a purely military point of view" and "from a purely political point of view" would be forbidden as utterly meaningless...
While Nixon's comparatively hard anti-Communist line is applauded in parts of Asia, notably Thailand, South Korea, Taiwan and South Viet Nam, it arouses anxiety among allies elsewhere. At the same time, some capitals fear that...
...South Korea 4,452* Total...