Word: truce
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...Korea last week the U.N. suddenly seemed desperately eager to break the deadlock in the truce talks. At the heart of the impasse is the question of repatriating North Korean and Chinese prisoners. The Communists want them all back. The U.N. has taken the position that no prisoner should be forced back to Red territory against his Will. Last week the U.N. senior delegate, Lieut. General William K. Harrison, brought out three new proposals, and asked the Communists to pick any one. Technically, the proposals stood firm on the U.N. position, but actually they came close to scrapping...
...Truce Table: The only news was that a North Korean officer and two Communist soldiers arranged their personal cease-fire by deserting to the Americans. One of the Chinese came rattling through the truce zone at 50 m.p.h. in a Russian truck. Said Lieut. General William K. Harrison, chief U.N. negotiator: "We don't mind if they want to come through our place, but at least they ought to stay within our speed limits...
...Korea: The Communists should be told that the U.N. will "end the truce talks if no agreement is reached, [that] we will no longer give them sanctuary from which to launch direct attacks upon us . . . The Korean war must be ended . . . in a military victory...
...Russia's chief delegate to the U.N. since 1948, Malik has rivaled even his predecessor Gromyko for plain cussedness (52 vetoes), false charges (germ warfare) and phony offers (the Korean truce). In 1950 he became a TV character as familiar as Hopalong Cassidy, and brought the voice and face of the enemy into the American living room. Last week, Malik was being recalled from his U.N. post for "rest and re-assignment." (Best guess: a high post in the Kremlin's Far East Department.) Asked about his new duties, Malik said only: "There is no unemployment...
Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy and former U.N. truce negotiator in Korea, entered Bethesda Naval Hospital with a serious case of virus pneumonia complicated by anemia. At week's end his condition was reported "satisfactory...