Word: truce
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...forces that seemed to attack from everywhere, only to fade into nowhere when counterattacked. The governments of Indo-China's three Associated States, Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam, were taking advantage of the mess to harass France for more and faster independence than France could sensibly give. The truce was on the way in Korea, freeing Communism to turn its attention and resources on the war that Korea had overshadowed. Their fortunes and their spirits at a dismally low ebb, the leaders of France were seriously wondering whether to cut their lines and pull out the one plug that...
...small plane stood on an airfield in South Korea at dawn one day last week, waiting to take on passengers bound for the north. They were Polish, Czech and Swiss members of a neutral nations' truce inspection team which had been keeping check on the airfield's traffic. Just as the plane was ready to take off, one of the neutrals, pale, thin Jan Hajdukiewicz of Poland, ran from his colleagues to the side of U.S. Major Edward Moran. "I'm afraid to go back to Communism!" he blurted out to the non-neutral major...
...load them, and eliminating many overhead clearance problems. Railroad men think that the new cars will enable them to haul trailers for 4? a mile less than truckers can pull them over the highways. If they do, the embattled truckers and railroads may be headed for a profitable truce...
...prime reason, Humphrey explained, is that the U.S. Government is going to spend far less in fiscal 1954 than Harry Truman estimated, less even than Humphrey figured last May-partly because of the Korean truce and partly because of plain, everyday economies. The case of the dwindling deficit estimate went thus (in billions...
...GARDINER Symonds' threat to blow up the New England natural gas "truce" unless he won access to the Canadian market (TIME, Aug. 17) got results. In return for sharing New England with Algonquin...