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...radio and by leaflets dropped from planes, the U.N. last week warned the inhabitants of 78 North Korean towns-which the enemy is using as troop, supply and communications centers-to get out of town and stay out. The U.N. had no desire to kill civilians, the messages explained, but the military targets in the towns had caused them to be selected for air attack. The warnings had been designed by Mark Clark's psychological warfare branch. It was certain that the Communist authorities would make every effort to keep people from trickling out of the target areas...
...looking around for more assault points, decided on the ripening military targets in and around Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. These included warehouses crammed with ammunition and other war gear, telephone, rubber and ammunition factories, railroad repair shops and marshaling yards, a motor pool, a Chinese communications center, a troop replacement area. Three weeks ago allied reconnaissance planes began dropping leaflets warning the people of Pyongyang to stay away from military installations. "United Nations forces cannot be responsible for your death," the leaflets said, "if you ignore this warning...
Night brought no respite to the enemy capital. Fifty-four 6-29 bombers from Japan and Okinawa went over and took care of targets specially reserved for them in the city's northwest corner-more repair shops, a troop center, a headquarters for several Communist armies. Flak was feeble; all the big bombers returned safely...
...cases. When he got his overseas orders, the book had still to be indexed. The publishers urged him to leave the job to a professional, but Spock is a fussy man, and he felt he knew best what mothers would be looking for. So on the hot, week-long troop-train ride from New York to San Francisco, while a beer party flowed at one end of his Pullman and a petty officer noisily snored in the seat opposite, Lieut. Commander Spock patiently indexed away, his lap lost under galley proofs and long sheets which slowly filled up with...
North American's Dog is a single-seater, but the Starfire carries both a pilot and a radar operator. Some Air Force authorities think that, even with a troop of electronic assistants, there is too much concentrated work on a fast interceptor for one man to handle...