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...wire and strictest secrecy, but the Communists broadcast to the world their conditions for a ceasefire: ¶The opposing armies to withdraw to a distance of ten kilometers (about 6.2 miles) north and south of the 38th parallel; ¶The 12½-mile-wide strip thus created across the peninsula to be under the civil administration of the North and South Korean governments; ¶Prisoners to be exchanged; ¶ All "foreign troops" to withdraw from Korea in "the shortest possible time...
...songs Shoshana sings are the kind that Jewish men & women have sung since the days of David and Bathsheba: prayers, laments, love songs, or songs that tell a story, such as The Magic Carpet-an account of the exodus of modern Yemenite Jews from their home on the Arabian peninsula. Few in the audience can understand the Hebrew words, but Shoshana's gestures, mobile face and throbbing voice make them exciting listening anyway...
Phase One began when the North Korean army crossed the 38th parallel and bowled down the center of the peninsula through Seoul toward Taejon. A handful of green troops of the U.S. Eighth Army were rushed into Korea from Japan, tried to bolster crumbling South Korean resistance and to stem the Red onslaught. At Taejon came the first big decision: General MacArthur decided to force the enemy to deploy and he succeeded. In some of the heaviest battles of the whole campaign, at the famed "Bowling Alley" outside Taegu, the Reds were stopped cold. With that victory, the U.N. forces...
...truly epic battles, the marines made it, broke through to the sea, carrying along most of their wounded. Meanwhile, the Eighth Army, badly shaken by what everyone called the "Chinese hordes," retired all the way back past the 38th parallel, past Seoul. Finally, along a line running across the peninsula from a little below Samchok and Wonju, the Eighth stood its ground. At this point it became clear that the Eighth Army would not be driven into the sea, which was Peking's boasted...
...Wonsan area from the sea. If a beachhead could be established there, the base of the enemy salient could be squeezed from both sides and .would probably become untenable. It would also stand a good chance of rolling up to the Reds' next best defense line across the peninsula, which runs from Wonsan to a point below Pyongyang...