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...incident, while it will probably have little influence on the situation, weakens the U.N.'s position, which is based on General Ridgway's heated assertion that the past Red charges were phony. The candor with which the U.N. admitted the plane incident testified to its sincerity; but some people could now argue that if one violation happened-by mistake-perhaps some of the other incidents the Reds cited had happened in the same way. The Peking radio crowed triumphantly, indicated that the Communists would resume the talks if the U.N. pleaded guilty to all the other charges...
...without letup. The Peking radio frankly admitted what the free world had suspected for weeks-that the breakdown at Kaesong was closely linked to the signing of the Japanese treaty (see INTERNATIONAL). The Reds had obviously hoped to use Korea as an instrument of blackmail at San Francisco. General Ridgway seized an obvious last chance to get the truce talks on the track again and formally suggested to the Reds that the conference site be moved to another location. In a message to Kim II Sung and Peng Teh-huai, Ridgway proposed that choice of a new site be discussed...
...scene of the alleged murder. They queried the assistant commander of the Chinese platoon, who said frankly that he had seen only one of the assailants clearly-a man in a white shirt and dark trousers, with a sidearm. In a moderate reply to the Red protest, General Ridgway pointed out that no troops under his command wore such a uniform...
...which burns up thousands of square feet of terrain. The Chinese soldier gave the show away when he said that the attacking plane had its headlights on; no U.N. air unit attacks with lights on at night. After first checking the whereabouts of every U.N. plane that night, Matt Ridgway denounced the affair as a "frame-up" and scorned it as an "amateurishly staged presentation . . ." The Communists, in turn, denounced Ridgway's reply as "savage" and "contemptible," charged further attempts to murder Communist personnel by U.S. and South Korean "plainclothesmen," and accused U.N. air commanders of sending planes over...
...fleet of Matt Ridgway's B-29 bombers, escorted by Navy jets from off-shore carriers, bored into extreme northeastern Korea one day last week and dropped 300 tons on the important communications town of Rashin, which lies on the rail line from Manchuria's Harbin down Korea's east coast. The bombers smashed warehouses, a locomotive repair shop, a marshaling yard. There was no flak and no enemy interception. It would have been a routine raid if it were not for Rashin's peculiar history...