Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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With shocking suddenness the U.N. victory march in Korea was stopped, and hurled back. Driven from advanced positions near the Manchurian border (see below), U.N. troops settled grimly to holding a defense line which in some places was only 45 miles north of Pyongyang. Generals who two weeks before had promised to have their forces on the Yalu River in a matter of days now discussed a "winter war." Said one U.S. officer grimly: "I think we can hold them...
...been snatched from the U.N.'s grasp? The first official explanation came in a communique issued last week by Douglas MacArthur. The supreme commander accused "the Communists" of sending "alien Communist forces" across the Yalu River and of concentrating possible reinforcements behind the "privileged sanctuary" of the Manchurian border. Said he: "While the North Korean forces with which we were initially engaged have been destroyed or rendered impotent ... a new and fresh army now faces us, backed up by a possibility of large alien reserves and adequate supply within easy reach to the enemy but beyond the limits...
...China's newspapers blossomed with "popular demands" that the Chinese army push the "U.S. imperialists" out of Korea. So far the U.N. had treated the belligerent Peking regime with anxious forbearance, and a turn-the-other-cheek mildness. But if Communist troops and aircraft continued to cross the border, sooner or later there would be no choice for the U.N. command except to blow up the Yalu River dams and bridges, to bomb airfields and troop concentrations in Manchuria...
...Buzz Saw. Whether Chinese or Korean, the enemy had succeeded in breaking up a triumphant U.N. offensive, by midweek was harrying U.N. defenses. In the northwest powerful Red units had driven southwest from the Manchurian border to Unsan, 70 miles north of Pyongyang. Four overextended R.O.K. divisions -the ist, 6th, 7th and 8th-crumpled or were chopped up piecemeal in the Red attack. The enemy seemed to be trying to break the U.N. line below Unsan, then drive west along the Chongchon River to the coast...
...four days the invaders reached Ning-ching, where a Tibetan border regiment defected in what appears to have been the commissars' first tactical triumph. On Oct. 19 the combat troops "annihilated" 4,000 Tibetans at Chamdo, a citadel 400 miles east of Lhasa, Tibet's capital. From Chamdo on, they had no real opposition except from the rugged terrain and rarified air on the "roof of the world." By week's end the One-Eyed Dragon was reported five days' march from the Tibetan capital...