TRUCE TALKS: Safeguards

The U.N. truce team got set for a double-barreled showdown, and both barrels were loaded. While the Communists mulled over the latest U.N. proposal, South Koreans attacked it (see above). The negotiators could take comfort in one thought: except for the Koreans, all the U.S.'s major allies had okayed the plan.

The proposal was still officially secret, but last week some details began to leak out. The U.N. no longer insists that all North Korean prisoners who refuse to go home must be released as soon as an armistice is signed, but the new plan still guarantees that no prisoner will...

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