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UN patrol enters planned truce talks site, Kaesong; unopposed; 2 Kumhwa area attacks repulsed; enemy withdraws SE of Pyonggang; patrols on E central front rept no contact; 1 patrol fired on NW of Yanggu
Pres Truman warns against relaxing full defense effort in case of Korean truce, Independence Day s
TOKYO, Thursday, July 5 Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway moved swiftly today to speed the negotiations with the Chinese and North Korean Communists for a cease-fire in the Korean war. In a broadcast at 10:30 o'clock this morning ...
Preliminary Korean truce talks will open in the Kaesong area Sunday as the result of General Ridgway's acceptance of a Communist proposal to that effect. General Ridgway had asked that the talks start yesterday.
Dept doubles holiday work force; union chief denies Mulrain rept of normal conditions; threatens new techniques in slowdown
1951Goose Gossage, American baseball player[†]
Richard Michael "Goose" Gossage is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1972 and 1994. He pitched for nine different teams, spending his best years with the New York Yankees and San Diego Padres.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]