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There were 26 assaults on an 18-mile sector, along that part of the front that bulged north through the old Iron Triangle and passed just below Kumsong. Under overwhelming force, the ROKs wavered and broke. Some went back as far as ten miles before they were regrouped and turned around...
This week, attacking in a different sector, the Communists forced U.S. Marines to abandon two outposts, known as Berlin and East Berlin...
...week. Days after the Communist refusal of President Eisenhower's offer of U.S. food relief, Socialist Willy Kressmann, borough mayor of the West Berlin district of Kreuzberg, dipped into his community chest, opened four mobile food stores in Oranienplatz, a market place only 200 yards from the East sector border. Loudspeakers manned by West German policemen sent Mayor Kressmann's invitation booming into Communist Berlin: "Fresh fruit and vegetables-' come...
Marshal Alphonse-Pierre Juin, 64, France's tough, seven-starred No. 2 soldier, will set up a new, unified headquarters as Commander in Chief, Allied Forces in Central Europe. Previously, at Eisenhower's insistence, air, sea and ground forces in that crucial sector were under direct control of SHAPE. Juin's appointment is designed to soothe Frenchmen who feel that France does not have enough high-ranking positions in NATO...
Under the steel hand of the Soviet army, the workers' uprising against Communist oppression came to a bloody end. West Berlin alone counted seven dead and 119 wounded East Berliners in its hospitals; how many men were dead or injured in the Soviet sector no one knew. When night came, East Berlin lay gloomily quiet, its disheveled squares and streets guarded by dug-in machine-gunners of the People's Police, its border to the West ringed with fully manned Soviet tanks. (U.S. military officials in West Berlin estimated that 25,000 Soviet troops and 300 tanks were...