Word: truce
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Just one border shooting broke the silence and the Israelis hastened to apologize for that. In this atmosphere the U.N. Security Council, called into special session in Manhattan after an appeal from the UN truce chief. Major General Edson L.M. Burns of Canada, found itself in rare-unanimity. By vote of 11 to 0 (the U.S. and Russia both voting aye), the council called on Israel and Egypt to work out something with General Burns "forthwith," and endorsed his idea of creating a border neutral zone and raising a barbed wire barricade along the Gaza line to keep the troops...
...hours in the U.S.). The screen must be left blank on Sunday mornings so as not to compete with churchgoing; no Sunday afternoon shows may be aimed at children, because they might entice them away from Sunday school. At 6 every evening will occur the "toddler's truce," an hour of TV silence, so that parents can wring out their moppets and put them to bed. The program companies have made an unwritten agreement to limit U.S. imports to 25% of the week's programming. But arrangements have already been made to acquaint Britons with I Love Lucy...
...Communists last week sat in safety behind U.S. machine guns, smoking American cigarettes, leafing through American magazines, drinking American beer. With their Swiss and Swedish colleagues, they came to Korea in 1953, ostensibly to ensure that neither side increased its military strength after the armistice signed at Panmunjom. That truce, which South Korea did not sign, was supposed to last 90 days, until a conference met to work out a treaty. It is now 23 months later, and President Syngman Rhee has run out of patience...
...complaint: truce inspection is a farce, for only the U.N. observes it. Not a Sabre jet leaves Korea, not a howitzer is junked or a Patton tank replaced on the U.N. side, without its being reported to the NNSC and thence, via the Czechs and the Poles, to Pyongyang, Peking and Moscow. U.S. soldier replacements disembarking in Korea are greeted by Communist officers, who click them in with hand counters as they march off their Army transports. Yet on the North Korean side of the truce line, an immense and illegal buildup has gone on unchecked...
...Other Side. Since the armistice, U.S. intelligence estimates that the Communists have increased artillery firepower by 30%, laid out 40 military airfields and moved in more than 400 aircraft, including 150 MIG jets. Last year, the Swiss and Swedes reported that truce inspection in North Korea was "completely illusory." The U.S. called for its immediate abolition on the grounds that "obstructionist tactics on the Communist side have made [its work] impossible." Washington even promised Rhee that the U.S. would see to it that NNSC left Korea shortly. It is still there...