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...Panmunjom, U.N. and Communist negotiators met for the first time in the durable wooden conference house built by the Reds. For the sixth straight week, the negotiators declared a recess. But there was no recess in bloodletting: latest Defense Department figures listed 116,655 U.S. casualties since the start of the war, including 20,506 battle deaths, 1,613 known captured, 9,441 missing...
Three weeks of executive sessions ended last week in an ovenlike truce tent at Panmunjom. Major General William Harrison, the senior U.N. delegate, said angrily that the secret talks, undertaken at Communist request, had been "completely fruitless." General Harrison unilaterally declared a recess of one week, and walked out with his delegation...
...their craw that three out of four of the U.N.'s Chinese prisoners had indicated that they would forcibly resist any attempt to send them home. The Reds continued to demand the unconditional exchange of all "foreign" (non-Korean) prisoners. Nevertheless, they asked for a one-day recess to study the U.N. proposal, then for executive sessions to shield "realistic discussions." The U.N. agreed. A U.N. briefing officer told newsmen that the private proceedings were noticeably free of propaganda tirades...
Senior Delegate Harrison took up right where Joy left off. "Our stand is unshakable," he said to the abusive Nam Il. "We will make no further concessions." Then Harrison suggested a three-day recess. This time the Reds accepted: barring a Communist change of mind, there was nothing to talk about anyway...
Picking Flowers. At school, there was a big, bony-faced girl. The other children called her "Stewguts," and baited her mercilessly. Her stupid younger sister was in Chambers' classroom. One recess, Stewguts peered in warily, and, seeing only Chambers and her sister, slipped into the room...