Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vice President Richard Nixon began astounding the Asian mind almost as soon as he arrived in Seoul on his good-will trip through the East. Thousands of Korean children lined the streets to see him driven into town from the city airport, and he returned the compliment by ordering his car stopped time & again, getting out, and giving them flowers taken from his wife's bouquet. When he was driven into Tokyo (where he later rode in a gilded state coach to see the Emperor, and publicly announced that Japanese disarmament had been a U.S. mistake), he repeated...
...prepared a special task force under the command of 34-year-old Lieut. Colonel Charles B. Smith. On July i, when the orders came, Dean dispatched Task Force Smith by air to Korea with the mission of meeting an army of 30,000 North Koreans on the road between Seoul and Pusan. Smith's force numbered only...
...borrow time for the Eighth Army to unload at Pusan and establish a firm line of defense. Each hour of delay, each blunting skirmish that forced the Communists to detour or deploy, was a small triumph, paid in full with American lives. Four times on the bloody road from Seoul the G.I.s halted the Reds briefly, upsetting their timetable and flattening their warhead...
...away in Korea, knew why he had wanted to try Communism-and he wasn't giving the real reasons. When he crossed the line at Panmunjom, he was smiling sheepishly and seemed eager to talk, but he was whisked away by helicopter to the 121st Evacuation Hospital at Seoul and later by plane to the Tokyo Army hospital. At press conferences, he was sullen and evasive, and told a story that was skeptically received. Why had he originally refused repatriation? "I wanted revenge against the Communists for what they did to my buddies and me," he said, his eyes...
...prosperous Seoul businessmen are already riding around in new Buicks and Studebakers. Moreover, President Syngman Rhee, anxious for international prestige, has splendiferous plans for an international airline, an ocean-going merchant marine, and several luxury hotels. In a nation which pays its ministers $170 a month and where the average suit costs $125, corruption may siphon off some of the aid funds...