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Prepared for War. Such accusations have acquired a new urgency since the Communist takeover of Indochina. In Korea, where many remember the Communist invasion that began 25 years ago this month, there are widespread fears of a new attack. North Korea's hard-lining Communist President Kim Il Sung, newly returned from a conference in Peking last month, increased Southern fears by declaring: "We are prepared for war." South Korea's strongman President Park Chung Hee responded with equal bellicosity, warning that the South is also ready for a fight. In this policy, Park has the support...
...Kanfer calls Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee the "only literary work" in which the bicycle's glory is sung [April 9]. Albert Schweitzer, born just 100 years ago, was eight or nine when the rumor spread in his Alsatian village that a "speed-runner" was at the village inn. Schweitzer says in his charming childhood memoirs: "Today's young people can't imagine what the coming of the bicycle meant to us. A hitherto undreamed of possibility of getting into nature was opened before us, and I made full and joyous...
Explained a White House aide: "The aim was for our action to be read by North Korean President Kim II Sung as well as by the Cambodians." Moreover, Ford and Kissinger were insistent that the U.S. would not repeat its failure to use force to recover the U.S. Navy surveillance ship Pueblo from North Korea in 1968. Said a Defense Department official rhetorically: "What if the Cambodians used the Mayaguez crew the way that the North Koreans used the Pueblo crew?* I'd hate to think what would happen to the remaining American position in Asia. Yet, that...
...story page 28); Korea could be next, in the opinion of many South Koreans. "It is obvious that the Communists will attempt to create another Indochina situation in the Korean peninsula," noted a resolution adopted last week by the [South] Korean Newspaper Association. North Korean Dictator Kim II Sung has done nothing to alleviate the South's fears; in Peking last month he warned that "we are prepared for war. We will not hesitate to launch even war for the revolution in South Korea...
...affiliations with the Communist Party, USA, Seeger refused to answer, saying that it was none of the committee's business, and that he resented the insinuation that he was somehow unpatriotic because he had aligned himself with the poor and the oppressed in their struggle against injustice. "I have sung in hobo jungles, I have sung for the Rockefellers," Seeger told the committee, "and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody...