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...Ridgway agreed to the date. He said he would send his representatives by helicopter if the weather on Sunday permitted; otherwise they would travel by jeep. At the same time, he requested a pledge of safe-conduct...
...General Ridgway's request for a meeting July 5, but suggested July 8, a date two days earlier than the earliest previously mentioned by them...
...implication was that the helicopters might be fired on by mistake. It was also possible that the Communists, who had no 'copters, were jealous of such a stylish mode of travel, and that even in this minor matter they wanted to save face. In any case, Matt Ridgway stuck to his decision: it would be helicopters, he told the Reds...
...addition to their three negotiators, they would bring interpreters, "reception personnel and assistants." They evidently expected to act as hosts in Kaesong, although the town was well in front of their main positions and had been regarded by the Eighth Army as in no man's land. Ridgway let that pass, but he announced a "neutral zone" of five miles' radius around Kaesong, which told the Reds clearly that the area was dominated by the Eighth Army...
...Three Colonels. The U.N. mission traveling to Kaesong in its helicopters consisted of three colonels: Andrew Kinney of the U.S. Air Force, James Murray of the U.S. Marine Corps (both from General Ridgway's joint planning group in Tokyo) and Lee Soo Yong of the South Korean army. There were two pilots and a copilot, a mechanic, two interpreters, an Eighth Army photographer. No allied newsman went to Kaesong. A large throng of U.S. and other U.N. reporters were left behind at Munsan. If the negotiators ran into foul play (which was not seriously expected), allied ground forces around...