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...rounds, the Reds overran an eastern-front position called Luke the Gook's Castle, were later beaten off. Both attacks served merely as harassments, but they helped to make the winter nights ugly for U.N. troops. Shivering in three-above-zero cold on the Imjin sector, an 18-year-old soldier from The Bronx said: "It's like any other night-just too damned long." Probably no soldiers on earth really prefer fighting at night, but the Chinese and North Koreans have good and obvious reasons for avoiding daylight assaults. The U.N. artillery, close air support...
...scuffle burgeoned into an international incident. The French (in whose sector the shooting occurred) protested to the Russians, who sputtered back. The senate of West Berlin met in a special session to call a public "demonstration of grief" and Lord Mayor Ernst Reuter announced that he would attend Patrolman Bauer's funeral...
...Results Unknown." Every morning at 8 o'clock, at every U.S. command post in Korea, commanders gather with their staffs for their daily briefing on the infantry war. Before a lighted map of the corps, divisional or regimental sector in question, a G-2 officer reduces the cold, the tensions and the tragedy of the night just gone to dry brevities which, more often than not, end in the phrase "with results unknown...
...Record: An infantry lieutenant in the Far West's 91st Division in World War I, severely wounded in the Meuse-Argonne sector; in World War II, which surprised him on holiday in Honolulu, he served as major in various stateside jobs...
...shabby old woman, her hair tucked beneath a scarf in the strict Orthodox manner, circulated sadly among the studious rabbis who live close by the Arab sector of Jerusalem. To each she told the same tear-stained story-two relatives of hers, a man & wife, were shortly to be put to death by the Americans...