CEASE-FIRE: Trap Avoided

Cryptic rumbles from the stove-heated conference tent at Panmunjom had U.N. correspondents baffled—and, for that matter, just about everybody else. As far as the newsmen could make out from the word given by the briefing officer, the U.N. subcommitteemen and their Communist opposite numbers had almost agreed on item 2 of the agenda, the ceasefire line.* There only remained to be settled, it seemed, the relatively minor question of who, if anybody, would hold Kaesong. What, then, was aU the scuffling about in the conference tent? At week's end Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy, chief of the U.N. truce...

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