Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ability to rush crack troops to the scene of a crisis. Giant four-jet C-141 StarLifters flew some 700 men of the 82nd Airborne Division-part of a larger airlifted force-8,500 miles from Fort Bragg, N.C., with two refueling stops, to parachute-drop zones near Seoul in 55 hours. But for heavy snowstorms in South Korea, which forced a 24-hour postponement of the parachute jump, the operation would have taken barely more than...
...speed of the U.S. airlift. But they are now worried that the U.S. may try to pull some of its forces out of Korea on the grounds that in any emergency, it could easily fly them right back. No matter how rapidly U.S. troops can be flown in, Seoul would be much happier if they remained in place in South Korea...
...What has passed returns to nothingness if one gazes back at it," runs one line of the libretto. "Today is spring; tomorrow the flower wilts." Perhaps it was thoughts like these that helped Yun finish Dreams in a Seoul prison cell last year...
WASHINGTON Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey is an old hand at traveling abroad with Presidents. Richard Nixon's two predecessors kept him constantly on the move. With Lyndon Johnson, he went to Seoul and to Viet Nam; he covered Johnson's two-week tour of Asia in 1966 and the famous 4½-day dash around the world in 1967. Sidey was with Kennedy and Khrushchev in Vienna; he stood below as Kennedy shouted "Ich bin ein Berliner!" in the shadow of the Berlin Wall. And he went along on the young President's visit...
...Communists' Tet offensive, Hué was battered as was no other city in Viet Nam. It took 26 days of house-to-house, block-to-block fighting to drive out a tenacious 6,000-man invading Communist force. The U.S. Marines had not fought that way since Seoul in 1950; the South Vietnamese had never experienced sustained street fighting in all their years of war. Some 350 South Vietnamese and U.S. soldiers died in the battle, along with an estimated 4,100 civilians and more than 4,300 Communist troops. When it was over, Hué lay in smoking...