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...morning last week, a contingent of eleven American and South Korean officers and security guards were escort ing five Korean workers while they trimmed foliage from a large poplar that partially blocked the view northward from an Allied guardhouse. At 10:45 a.m., according to the U.N. Command's subsequent account, a small group of North Koreans appeared at the site and demanded that the work be stopped. The Americans refused. A few minutes later, a truckload of some 30 additional North Korean troops arrived at the scene. An officer shouted "Chukyo!" -the order to kill. The North Koreans...
...with traffic jams, the restaurants are full and on the sidewalks the crowds savor a late August breeze. The latest incident is shrugged off as worrisome but manageable." And in the DMZ last weekend, the North Koreans offered no resistance when American soldiers went out and chopped down that poplar tree near the Bridge of No Return...
...POPLAR...
Some gangs, like the Twelfth and Wallace corner and the Twelfth and Poplar, are perpetual enemies simply because they are immediate neighbors. Other gangs "pull with" each other, living in peace side by side and making common cause against more distant gangs. North Philadelphia's Valley gang is in fact a giant entente of corners boasting nearly 1,000 members...
Slim green poplar saplings line the dirt road to the Hsuan Wu May Seventh Cadre School, 30 miles from Peking along the banks of the Tsao Pai River. Orchards of apples, pears and peaches are neatly marked off, surrounded by a fresh red brick wall. Rice shoots are be ginning to sprout in well-irrigated fields, and the hogs are fattening. It seems like a typical commune, except that the farm hands are all from the city - 200 schoolteachers, office workers and party cadres who have gone off to the countryside for six months of consciousness raising, Chinese style...