Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admiral's jeep passed within a few feet of a column of 83 Chinese soldiers, heavily armed with mortars, machine guns, rifles, pistols, grenades. It was a flagrant violation of assurances given by the Reds to General Matthew Ridgway last month that they would respect a neutral zone around Kaesong, would keep armed soldiers out of the conference area...
...carried "illegal arms in violation of our agreement . . ." and promised that there would "be no recurrence of such incidents . . ." Concluded the Red reply: "In order that the cease-fire negotiations will not be affected by such minor 'matters, we have ordered our garrison troops in the Kaesong neutral zone to adhere strictly to the agreement...
...week at the Kaesong conference table ended as it began, in deadlock over the problem of where to draw the ceasefire line. The U.N. stood fast for a buffer along the actual front-line positions; the Reds stuck to their demand for a buffer zone straddling the 38th parallel. Day after day, both sides presented "clarifications" of their aims. Repeating the U.N.'s view that the parallel is an insecure defense line, Admiral Joy three times asked North Korean General Nam II, chief Communist delegate: "Do you or do you not agree that the security of his forces...
...probing attacks and heavy U.N. air strikes against the Reds' buildup areas and communications. In the wild mountains of Korea's east coast, 60 miles south of Wonsan, U.N. patrols moved in on Kosong (reportedly the eastern anchor of the U.N.'s proposed cease-fire buffer zone), while a destroyer-escort pounded the town from offshore. Further south and west, near Yanggu, U.N. infantrymen rested briefly after a savage, five-day fight for a 1.500-foot Red stronghold which Americans nicknamed "Fool Mountain...
Vienna itself is a city of contrasts. Twenty-six bezirks (districts) divide the city, five of them Russian and one international bezirk in the center. Each month one of the four powers patrols the international zone. As a vestige of former East-West unity, there are also several four-power military police cars to insure the order of the military personnel. These cars are much larger than Hollywood's "Four-in Jeep" conception. But the American always does drive, while the Russian sits silently in the back...