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...fighting erupted in one sector after another, U.N. combat commanders asked their G-2s, "Is this it?" The G2s didn't know, but the portents were strong. Red motor traffic behind the front was the heaviest of the war. Allied airmen destroyed or damaged 4,364 vehicles in one week-but they could not claim to have stopped more than a fraction of the traffic...
...Eighth Army's General James A. Van Fleet told of 17 days' hard fighting on the eastern front-with three U.N. divisions pitted against 83,000 Reds-as a result of which "partial exhaustion" had been inflicted on the Reds in that sector...
NATO's front, like the ocean sector it is named for, stretches from the Arctic to the Mediterranean. In the northern and central sectors, General Dwight Eisenhower and his fellow commanders have a solid organizational line, running from Scandinavia through Middle Europe. But on the southern flank, NATO ends with Italy. It does not embrace Greece and Turkey, the guardians of the eastern Mediterranean...
...factories in the Russian sector, word was passed around one day that all F.D.J...
...overburdened transport system broke down, stranded thousands of blueshirts en route to Berlin. And though East German police barred 165 East-West streets, closed 30 westbound subway stations to protect their delegates from "imperialistic contamination," more than 50,000 young Reds a day swarmed into the Western sector to have a look around; 1,590 asked for asylum. Most of the hooky-playing blueshirts, however, dutifully trooped back to their Communist festival, their one furtive look at freedom apt to become only a memory in the years of Soviet indoctrination that faced them...