Word: keyster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What the North Koreans were up to soon became clear. The U.N.'s armistice negotiations chief. Major General Olaf Keyster, demanded and got a Panmunjom session, received an answer to demands for return of the plane and passengers that was understandable as a ransom note: difficulties would be smoothed over if South Korea would recognize North Korea officially (which it has always refused to do) by entering into direct negotiations for the missing DC-3. As huge mobs of outraged Seoul citizens yelled for action, the answer came from explosive South Korean President Syngman Rhee: "No!" By early this...