Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Demanding that the North Koreans cease fire and withdraw to the 38th parallel...
...occupation commander, Reischauer said, left post war initiative to Russia and North Korean Communists. Hodges evacuated all Japanese residents in South Korea, including technicians, leaving the southern area without the technical know-how necessary for postwar reconstruction. Russia, on the other hand, sent Soviet technicians north of the 28th parallel; and the Russian sponsored Pyongyang government enacted immediate land reform...
Switching Signals. On the western flank of the U.N. army driving into North Korea, the cavalrymen advanced over the 38th parallel along the highway to Kum-chon, a railway center 80 miles southeast of Pyongyang. They ran smack into what they then decided were the strongest defense positions in North Korea. On heights overlooking bends in the highway the Communists had built concealed concrete pillboxes and log revetments-some with walls eight feet thick...
...burden off the troops on the ground. Rockets from F80 Shooting Stars set dry grass and bright autumn foliage ablaze, but failed to smash some Communist redoubts. In the first day of the attack the cavalry took many casualties, moved little more than a mile beyond the parallel. Said one officer: "It's been rough work, rougher than we expected. We had hoped to be 25 miles into North Korea by this time...
...last June, when the North Koreans were pouring down from the 38th parallel, Douglas MacArthur's hard-pressed Chief of Staff rammed through a phone call from Tokyo to Seoul...