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...Reds had no defensive positions in which to stand against the quick U.N. counteroffensive. At first they tried to slow the pursuers down by nastily laid mines, by a few long-range artillery fires, by delaying and screening actions which at some points were fierce and stubborn. Evidently they would have liked to move by night and hide by day. But there was no time for that; the allies' round-the-clock artillery gave them no peace. When the Chinese moved in the open by day, the airplanes hit them. The retreat, which had been orderly at first, began...
Rhee's critics call him "reactionary" by citing the wealthy men and old nobility who support him. Most of the Rhee faction are septuagenarians; American-educated Rhee is 76, and Lee's age was reported as 83 when he resigned. Rhee is self-assured, stubborn, and dictatorial. He has been actively heading the Korean independence movement since 1919 when he was elected President of the Korean Republic in exile. (Korea was handed over to Japan as a bribe for recognition of American interests in the Philippines...
...week wore on, enemy resistance stiffened. Some Communist artillery was spotted 20 miles north of Seoul. Communist and allied guns dueled across the lower reaches of the Han. In Chunchon, a U.S. patrol was fired on, for the first time in six days. U.S. infantrymen ran up against stubborn Reds dug into hillside positions north of Chunchon, failed to blast them out in a bitter five-hour fight...
...final, before 18,000 fans, including Andrei Gromyko, the Russians ran into trouble: a stonewall defense thrown up by the stubborn Czechs (normal defense: man-to-man). And before it was over, as everyone had expected, the Russians got involved in a stirring row with the officials...
Throughout all the uproar, Philosopher Hawkins had remained just about the calmest man on the campus. To his friends, who object less to his Red past than to his stubborn use of domestic vermouth in Martinis, he had only one comment on his vindication: "Now, perhaps, we can all get back to work...