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...Losses on both sides, for the past month, have been heavy (see box). An Eighth Army spokesman said that, according to "rockbottom" front-line estimates, the enemy had lost 16,700 men in the week ending Oct. 12. One captured North Korean officer said that his 4,000-man outfit had lost half its strength; another said that the North Korean army was "practically nonexistent." A Chinese corps of 30,000 men was observed moving eastward to back up the mangled Korean Reds. ¶ General Van Fleet appeared to be hitting the enemy with a sort of one-two punch...
...best. The Pentagon had set April 1 as the target date at which the 43rd would be fully trained and ready for combat. But two months more had passed and the division, even by its own reckoning, was still only about 40% combat-ready. And its morale was scraping rockbottom...
...Warned the Wall Street Journal: "The pound is still a hobbled currency . . . The man who holds a pound sterling, with its limited usefulness, still wants to swap it for U.S. dollars or other money that is spendable anywhere any time . . . Under such circumstances, there is no 'rockbottom' price [for the pound...
...Rockbottom budged last week. Foreign Minister Molotov's note to Washington on Korea broke a long deadlock that had made the 38th parallel across Korea the most opaque of all the curtains between the Russian sphere and the rest of the world. It also meant that the world's 13th largest nation could move a step toward the independence it had not known for 40 years and toward the democracy it had never known...