Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 18 miles east of Seoul, the C-119 crashed against a 2,000-ft. peak. There were no survivors; the Air Force called it the "worst transport disaster" of the Korean war.* In the litter of mangled flesh and metal, search parties found some of the presents-satin slippers, a woman's wristwatch, a pair of child's pink pajamas...
When the Communists invaded South Korea, Byrne refused to leave his flock in Seoul. He was arrested and later taken far north of the Communist line, along with his secretary, Father William Booth. Reports reaching Seoul said that he was weak and ill-treated. Last year, during the truce talks, Father Booth's name appeared on a list of civilian prisoners, but not Bishop Byrne's. The Communists refused to answer questions about...
...Correspondent Marguerite Higgins told, in This Week magazine, of the time she greeted General Douglas MacArthur after the liberation of Seoul, two years ago: "'Hi, General! Congratulations on this victory!' . . . MacArthur came to a dead stop. Then ... he waved over the crowd and called back. 'Hello, tall, blonde and ugly, come up and see me some time...
...Selden, was due to go into reserve. But Selden, a tall, sharp-eyed Virginian who enlisted as a Marine private in 1915, asked General Van Fleet to keep the division fighting. Van Fleet agreed, and assigned the Marines to the Panmunjom sector, astride the invasion route from Pyongyang to Seoul...
...Seoul last week, Eighth Army Commander General James A. Van Fleet drank from the cup of pessimism. "To me," he said, "recent trends indicate less chance of an armistice than ever before." Van Fleet noted that the Communist army commanders, apparently sharing his view, had "spread out" their front-line forces "to wait out the end of the war." Van Fleet offered a familiar but often disregarded antidote to the poisonous gloom which has settled over Korea: "The best way to win this war is by bringing pressure on the enemy, inflicting more casualties and damage than he can take...