Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called Demilitarized Zone -a 151-mile-long strip of mountains and fields separating North and South Korea-is in fact the only area on the entire peninsula that the U.S. still officially designates a combat zone. Thousands of armed soldiers patrol the entire length of the 2½-mile-wide land-mined strip. Artillery and missiles on both sides are aimed at hills pockmarked with trenches. Since the zone was established by the armistice agreement of July 1953, 49 Americans have been killed and dozens of others wounded in clashes in and near the DMZ. The death toll for North...
...near Panmunjom. In 1968-the year the U.S. warship Pueblo was seized by North Korea while on a reconnaissance mission-there were 760 incidents in the DMZ, including 356 outbreaks of shooting, with a total of 500 deaths on both sides. In the past 2½ years, however, the zone has been relatively quiet. Until last week, there had been no American deaths since November 1974. In the interim, the most serious injury was suffered by Major Darryl Henderson, whose larynx was crushed when he was attacked and beaten unconscious last year by North Korean guards in Panmunjom...
...brawn and even tempers-serve 13-month tours of duty at the "truce village" of Panmunjom, where 379 vituperous sessions of the Military Armistice Commission have regularly failed to accomplish anything. At a long wooden table that is half in the North Korean and half in the South Korean zone, North Korean and Chinese representatives argue fiercely with Americans representing the U.N. Command. Of the 35,000 truce violations charged to them in the past 23 years, the North Korean commission members have admitted only two. The U.S. and South Korea have admitted fewer than 100 of the nearly...
...borrowed from the Progressive program to curtail the growing power of the trusts, regulate the railroads, establish standards for food and drugs, and set aside public land for conservation. He strengthened his hold on the electorate by showing the flag around the world. "I took the [Panama] Canal Zone," he boasted...
...Death Zone. Since the Wall was built, 70 people have been trapped and killed among the wires, land mines and machine-gun towers that form a 100-yd. "death zone" along the border. At least 100 more people have been killed trying to cross the East German frontier at other points, and there seems to be no lessening of the vigilance...