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Reason: The MacArthur firing and the MacArthur hearings have moved Washington toward a more decisive policy. The Rashin raid could be interpreted by the stalling Chinese only as a taste of Mac-Arthur policy-a pointed hint that if the truce talks fail, the U.S. will no longer play by the old confining ground rules...
While the Peking and Pyongyang radios reached new heights of invective ("cunning," "deceitful," "arrogant," "blackmail" and "lunacy"), the Communists last week broke off the Kaesong truce talks. It was the first time they had done so, although Matt Ridgway had done it twice...
...been buried and detonated. There were two mothball-sized hunks of metal which, Chang solemnly averred, had struck Nam IPs jeep. Could the U.N. officers see the exhibits by daylight? No, said Chang, they had to be removed for "analysis." Reading from written notes, Chang called off the truce talks...
...sweltering Kaesong, Admiral Joy played a card from a new deck. Since the truce talks had long been deadlocked on the issue of a cease-fire line, he suggested last week that the matter be turned over to a subcommittee-one delegate from each side, with assistants. They could meet informally around a table-rather than facing across table in stiff two-sided array. There would be no stenographers' reports, no press briefings on the progress of the subcommittee, and a bare minimum of newsmen in Kaesong. There would be every reason to get down to business...
...advance base and press camp at Munsan, though correspondents were irked by the lack of hard news, optimism ran higher than at any time since the truce talks started. Subject to change, of course, without notice...