Word: assemblyman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Route to Ambush. Even when peace came, the Rhee authorities refused the villagers redress. In fact, no Shinwon survivors dared visit the mass grave because those who went were immediately put on the government's list of suspected Communist sympathizers. When Democratic Party Assemblyman Suh Min Ho called for an investigation, the government soon hustled him off to jail on hastily trumped-up charges. When the Assembly persisted and dispatched an investigating committee to Shinwon, the legislators were ambushed en route and forced to flee for their lives. Posing as an expert, Colonel Kim blandly identified the ambushers...
...legislature's reaction to Brown's plea was icy. Speaking the mood of hostile lawmakers. Republican Assemblyman Bruce F. Sumner charged that Democrat Brown had "ducked his responsibility," put the legislature "in the unfair position of being a court of last resort for Chessman." Brown's bill, which would mean life imprisonment for Chessman and 21 others condemned (including one woman), was sent to the senate judiciary committee. Said Chairman Edwin J. Regan, a Democrat, who scheduled a hearing this week: "I would think that if the bill were not reported out by the committee, that would...