Word: convoys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue came to its sticking point on a dirt road to Kaesong, where Communist soldiers with Tommy guns halted a U.N. convoy because it included a truckload of reporters. That was but an incident. The larger fact was that the Communists were insolently creating an atmosphere of victors receiving the vanquished. In the swept-eaved building which used to be the Reai Bong Chang restaurant, the U.N.'s negotiators met under the guns of Communist guards. Unarmed, U.N. negotiators drove under a white flag where armed Communists let them drive...
...devilish little four-pointed gadgets of cast iron which always keep one sharp point up, no matter how they fall, to puncture tires.* Obviously eager to be the first on the scene, the Communists announced that they proposed to leave Pyongyang the day before the Kaesong meeting in a convoy of five jeeps and five trucks bearing white flags. In addition to their three negotiators, they would bring interpreters, "reception personnel and assistants." They evidently expected to act as hosts in Kaesong, although the town was well in front of their main positions and had been regarded by the Eighth...
...event of bad weather, these officers will proceed in a convoy of three unarmed quarter ton trucks. The trucks, commonly known as jeeps, will proceed along the main road from Seoul to Kaesong...
...convoy will cross the Imjin River on the Seoul-Kaesong road at about 2300 hours G.M.T. 4 July (6 p.m. E.S.T. July 4) or at the same hour on the day agreed upon to this meeting...
...convoy bearing your liaison officers will be granted immunity from attacks by my forces, providing you advise me of its route and its schedule and the manner by which my forces may identify...