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...large numbers had been "re-educated" and had voluntarily joined the Communist forces. Their reluctance to go home, the Red negotiators implied, should be respected. But last week they insisted that Red prisoners in Allied hands should all be repatriated, whether they wanted to be or not. Rear Admiral Ruthven Libby scathingly pointed out the discrepancy...
...wintry Panmunjom one day last week, a thin, precise man stepped out of a helicopter, tucked his brown briefcase under his arm and strode purposefully toward the conference tents. He was Rear Admiral Ruthven Libby, commander of U.S. Cruiser Division 3, who has been detached for temporary duty as a U.N. delegate to the truce conference. The admiral wore a plain Navy overcoat without stripes or shoulder boards; only his gold-braided cap marked him as a naval officer. Said a British newsman who was watching the scene: "If you switched that cap of Libby's for a Homburg...
...people's hopes & fears lay in five thin paper folders placed by the Communists on the conference table at Panmunjom. "We herewith exchange our lists," intoned the U.S.'s Rear Admiral Ruthven Libby. The Red negotiators picked up a fat directory of 132,474 names, the prisoners of war now held by the U.N. Admiral Libby picked up the five thin folders: a roster of 11,559 U.N. fighting men named by the Communists as their prisoners. Among them were the names of 3,198 U.S. soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen, including that of Major General William Dean...
...blue-chip athlete on a college campus would take anyone by surprise." At William and Mary, two coaches resigned last week after the athletic department was charged with faking high-school grades to get promising athletes in. Even parents have been tainted, said Retiring President Alexander G. Ruthven of the University of Michigan: they have come to believe "that their sons ought to be paid for their competition...
Both parties argued over the workers' service for three months more. Late in January, 1949, after some agreement had been reached. Ruthven announced the new list of teachers. The union protested that it had not been consulted: Ruthven said he reserved the right to pick instructors...