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...Last week in North Korea, however, an air force team turned the trick. Four U.S. fighter-bombers attacked a convoy of ten North Korean trucks moving along the road between Anju and Sukchon, knocking out eight of the trucks and leaving two intact. A Fifth Air Force C-47 transport equipped with a loudspeaker and an interpreter then took over, issuing orders in Korean from the air for the truck drivers to turn their vehicles around and drive south...
...minutes later, an observation plane spotted two more trucks and a column of 300 Communist soldiers on the road. These too were ordered to turn around and fall in. With the transport still issuing orders from on high and fighter-bombers circling overhead like airborne collies, the whole convoy of prisoners was marched sheeplike into United Nations headquarters near Sukchon...
...neighboring Indo-China U.S. and Siamese officials at Bangkok last week ended three months of negotiations and signed a military assistance pact. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. will provide Siam's poorly equipped 50,000-man army with $10 million worth of modern weapons and transport. It will also dispatch officers and technicians to help train the Siamese in the use of the new arms and equipment. Sample instruction : the care and operation of the jeep...
...conference of the International Air Transport Association in San Francisco last week, British Overseas Airways' Chairman Sir Miles Thomas let out some jet-hot news. "This time next year," said Sir Miles, B.O.A.C. will have a commercial jet passenger liner on its London-Australia route. It will be the new 36-passenger De Havilland Comet (TIME, Jan. 2). B.O.A.C. expects that the 500 m.p.h. plane will cut the flying time for the 12,000-mile route from 68 to 33 hours...
...south at Langson where the railway between Hanoi and Ningming crosses the border. Laokay was cut off and dependent on supply by air. There were reports of Communist troops regrouping before Langson, from which civilians were being evacuated. Should either flank fold, the Communists would have uninterrupted rail transport to the rice-rich delta. The Chinese Communists were repairing their ends of the two railways...