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Last July, when the truce talks got under way, the camp was pitched in an apple orchard which was off limits to U.N. correspondents. A U.S. briefing officer appeased their curiosity by showing them an apple from the orchard-the size of a walnut. There was an immediate spate of speculation on how big the apples would be when camp was broken, i.e., when the cease-fire was signed. Last week the apples were harvested by U.S. troops, packed in 25-lb. sugar sacks and handed out to Munsan villagers. And no cease-fire was in sight...
...west that trouble lingered. Both the U.N. and the Reds proposed to hold Kaesong, the ancient, ruined town where the truce talks started. Apparently, the Reds wanted to keep Kaesong for face-saving reasons: it was the only sizable town they still held south of the 38th parallel. The U.N. wanted to keep it out of Red hands because the town and the neighboring heights control the western approach to Seoul...
This week the resumption agreement was formally signed, and the expectation was that the top delegations would meet within 48 hours for the first truce talks in two months. It remained to be seen whether the Communists would go back to their demands for an armistice line on the 38th parallel. If they did, the talks would be deadlocked again...
Despite the imminence of renewed truce talks (see above), the battle of Korea thundered on. "We are getting deeper into the Chinese," said an allied officer, "just like wading into water...
...Kumsong all summer. When the Reds lost most of their Iron Triangle, they moved their main central-front base a few miles east to Kumsong (peacetime pop. 5,000). Allied probing attacks in that direction ran into stonewall resistance. Then, with the start of truce talks in July, allied efforts slacked...