Word: pusan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Youth in the Alleys. In subsequent breaks elsewhere, ROK tanks and trucks surrounded one camp, and the trucks carted away the escaping prisoners. At Pusan, several hundred fled from a hospital. More than 100 anti-Communist Chinese seized chances to escape. But Rhee's government, not interested in the Chinese, ordered them rounded up at once, and they were soon back behind the wire...
...testimony as "labored" and "completely fantastic," MacArthur argued that "optimistic views" had nothing to do with 1950 decisions on ammunition: "As a matter of fact . . . during those early months . . . the only predictions from Washington warned of impending military disaster . . ." At one time, he said, the U.S. defenders of the Pusan perimeter were down to "five rounds...
...Contamination. Meanwhile, some 500 enemy prisoners, brought up by train from Pusan, were being handed over at Panmunjom to the Communists, who had set up eight large white tents and seven smaller ones to receive them. Among these there had been some disturbances-apparently a last attempt to throw mud on the U.N. A group of Chinese, most of them pitiful cripples, had momentarily refused to disembark from an LST at Pusan...
...program will be a supplement to the vast, basic job of relief and reconstruction to be carried on in Korea by U.N. and the U.S. Government. For example, it will promote shelters and orphanages for homeless children (15,000 are wandering, begging and pilfering in the streets of Seoul, Pusan and other cities), more hospital beds for advanced T.B. sufferers (an estimated 2.5% of the population), institutions for widows and the aged, services for the physically handicapped (there are some 15,000 amputees), repair of schools, and other "creative, productive projects," that will lessen Korean dependency on outside relief...
...Sack boarded the prisoner ship--an LST--at Cheju Island. It was enroute to Pusan, Korea, with a load of Chinese Communists bound for repatriation. As the prisoners filed off the ship at Pusan, military police spotted Sack and detained him for violating a "no press allowed...