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This week, under the big tent at Panmunjom, everything was signed and set for the formal resumption of U.N.-Communist cease-fire talks...
...seat. He had his picture taken there, and saw that it made Wisconsin papers. Joe used to shoot up everything in sight, on the theory that any coconut tree might hide a Jap. He hated to see a crew come home with any ammunition left. On his tent, marines hung a sign: "Protect the coconut trees-Send McCarthy back to Wisconsin...
...village of Panmunjom, the place agreed on as the new site for cease-fire talks, the Communists put up a large tent. Under it, Communist and U.N. liaison officers met last week to haggle-not over peace, but over how wide the neutral zone must be in which to discuss the peace. At this point, two U.N. planes, strafing the Kaesong neutral area by mistake, killed a twelve-year-old Korean boy and wounded his two-year-old brother. After an investigation, General Matt Ridgway accepted responsibility for the occurrence, expressed his "heartfelt grief" and promised "prompt and appropriate disciplinary...
...story we'll be moved to Libya, or the Sinai desert or Syria or Jordan . . . Tell the Arab and foreign governments we'll never go! There's not enough dollars to make us forget our dearest Palestine. Here we live in a tent, fit for four chickens, not twelve people. Have you ever heard of such a camp in Russia or Communist countries? We are not Communists. We are Moslems. But we want the Western governments to know that if there is war, we will attack them from behind . . . Tell Truman and Attlee...
Just as Fan was being led from the tent in which his interrogation took place, he stopped, returned to the map, studied it intently for a minute, and then marked it with a neat cross to guide U.N. artillery. "That," said Fan, "is where the division commander lives...