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More truce
talks
#lilikely”
SAN FRANCISCO,
January 19 (A.A.P.).—
It was unlikely that
truce negotiations
would..be resumed in
Korea Brigadier Gen
eral William Nuckols
■said here today.
,> General Niickols, a former
spokesman for the United
Nations in tiie Panmunjom
negotiations, arrived here on
nls, way to.take, up a new as
sflf!>mcnt as.chlcf 'public in
Wmation officer for Gen
ual , Matthew Ridgway in
Europe.
„ .teems- of n purely mil
itary . armistice are now in
general agreement,", hc.sald.
•The primary issue still un
solved, is the prisoner of ivnr
exchange, ahd that is a little
above, the military level. It
is something that must ue set
i led nt the Governmental
level, if it is to be settled
with all 'the. air strikes against
enemy-supply lines ana oasts,
the, -Communist armies .In
North Korea continued their
bulm-up, General Nuckols
sanl, "You must remember
that-, for the last ,15 months
the Communists have control
led. the 'timetable of the war.
He moves his supply trains at
n(ght. if he was on the offen
sive he. would have to try to
move supplies by day as well.
But he .knows he cannot be
cause, our planes will have a
field day..
“The Air Force Is' the deter
rent that keeps, him from
making ;nn all out attack.”
Gengral. Nuckols said that
■ the'member of MiG’s defin
itely, destroyed in the Korean
flghli/ig was '575, The United
Nations’ losses, in air battles
■were)oncieighth ot that.
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