Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dirge Without Death. The Communists charged that one of their military police platoons had been attacked by U.N. armed forces inside the Kaesong neutral zone. Two men had been wounded and one was finished off by "shots at the forehead." Alan Winnington, Communist correspondent of the London Daily Worker, invited three U.N. reporters and a U.N. officer to attend the dead hero's funeral. There were wreaths and silken banners, speeches and accordion music-but no casket. North Korea's Nam II was there, impassively smoking...
Iran and Iraq. The British "desert rats" fought Rommel for two years to defend it. Into this area the British have now packed 35,000 to 40,000 troops and airmen, immense supply depots, airfields, excellent antiaircraft defenses. From British Middle East headquarters in the zone, empire lifelines go out to bases like Malta in the Mediterranean, Nairobi in East Africa, Habbaniya in Iraq...
...Wheel. British troops in Egypt are the key to British power in the Middle East. The Suez Canal zone which they protect is still the lifeline of an empire and one of the Western world's prime strategic links with Asia. On it ultimately depends the defense of Greece, Turkey...
...Silence. When, after a five-day lapse (longest so far), the teams faced each other again in Kaesong, the Reds trotted out their moth-eaten demands for a buffer zone along the 38th parallel, as if they were brand-new. Admiral Joy made it clear that his side still insisted on a more defensible line, approximating present battle positions, but that he was willing to discuss some compromise. One day, after Joy had stated his position, Nam II sat silent for two hours and eleven minutes, chain-smoking through his curved cigaret holder, fidgeting and looking at his watch...
...Whip Hand. Smarting under their forced public admission that they had violated the neutral zone, the Reds launched-both officially and unofficially-a spate of charges that the U.N. was cheating too. They complained that U.N. planes bound for North Korean targets had flown over Kaesong (true, but not covered by any agreement); that allied gunfire was audible in Kaesong (true, but the guns were being fired outside the neutral zone); that the allies were using poison gas (untrue). Their most serious charge was that one of their white-flagged truce trucks had been fired on by allied planes...