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...next session, U.S. Delegate Philip Jessup agreed that Gromyko's proposals "had considerably narrowed the gap." But, added Jessup, aware that Soviet verbiage usually conceals a trap, the West wanted further clarification. Growled Gromyko: "The Soviet text means what it says." He wanted a yes or no answer. When he couldn't get one, the light turned red again...
...hills dominating what was thought to be the escape route for the retreating Reds. "The purpose of this operation is to kill the enemy," reiterated General Ridgway, who followed the paratroopers in a light plane. But Bowen's men found their quarry had slipped out of the trap. Instead of 60,000 Communists, they found less than 20,000. A few hours after the drop, U.N. tank-led task columns from Uijongbu linked up with the chutists. The enemy was still withdrawing; north of the 38th parallel he was either digging in for a stand or marshaling fresh forces...
...troop concentrations on Sakhalin. Whether based on fact or not, the rumors made the U.S. high command sharply conscious that Japan's occupation garrison had been shipped to Korea, leaving the islands virtually defenseless on the ground. A Russian invasion of Japan from Sakhalin could outflank and trap U.N. forces in Korea...
...five antiaircraft guns, 22 machine guns, twelve barrels of tear gas, hundreds of grenades, many small arms, 82 cases of ammunition. A smart police officer narrowly averted a tragedy by cautioning his men not to switch on a light in the shelter; it turned out to be a booby trap set up to detonate...
...case in point was the handsomely carved mirror of a Bushongo sorcerer, equipped with what seemed to be a quite unfunctional shutter. Actually, the shutter was as important as a camera's; the sorcerer thought that by closing it he could trap the reflections and therefore the very souls of unwary lookers...