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...under the weight of its load, R.O.K. troops herded all the passengers off by shooting bursts of burp gunfire over their heads. The 4,000 Koreans scrambled blithely ashore and stood around grinning amiably, while the R.O.K. officers and the ship's crew argued furiously over the snafu and the skipper strained vainly to get his craft...
Defense Secretary George Marshall was trying to straighten out the snafu. He ordered the services i) to make up their minds how many more men they will need in the next six months, 2) give 30 days notice to those who are going to be recalled, 3) inform all others they will not be mobilized for at least four months. He also directed that reservists should be kept on active duty only until volunteers and draftees meet manpower requirements. Around the Pentagon, estimates of those requirements went up again last week with reports of the reverses in Korea...
Politics & the Police. Like that of all U.S. military government officers in North Korea, Munske's work is complicated by a high-level snafu. U.S. Civil Assistance Teams have been given no clearly defined political objectives, and each team is theoretically responsible only to the U.S. tactical commander in its area. In the Pyongyang area the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team is trying to set up local administration in the small communities around the city. The airborne officers are working hard, but they are not trained for the work, and it seems doubtful that their efforts will have...
...minutely planned and elaborately organized amphibious assault in Korea last week was as different from the Willaumez snafu as an F80 jet is from the baling-wire crates of World War I. Since Willaumez, a great deal has been learned about the art of amphibious warfare. More than any other marine, "O.P." Smith, sometimes called "the Professor," had labored to get World War II beach assault experience into textbooks where all U.S. planners could...
Edger W. Davis, Engineer for the City of Cambridge, yesterday stated that the present rotary experiment would continue "for at least 30 days." If after that time, however, the situation remains snafu, the Planning Board will temporarily revert to the old helter-skelter routing system...