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Clearly taken by surprise, Prince Souphanouvong was able to muster only 16 of the 47 Assemblymen present to oppose the Premier. Armed with his new mandate, Phoui Sananikone promised Laotians a new constitution, pledged that the royal government would build dams and roads, improve communications, seek foreign investments. He would rule, said the Premier, through the "two essential motors" of an independent state: the army and the civil service...
...typical slam-bang effort to solve all his problems, 83-year-old President Rhee devised an omnibus security law that opponents, including the bar association, said was so loosely drawn that it could be used to silence all political protest. In a desperate effort to block the bill, 80 Assemblymen of the opposition Democratic Party barricaded themselves in the Assembly chamber for six days...
...Christmas Eve lowering clouds hung over Seoul and gusts of bone-chilling rain lashed the streets, drenching the policemen who stood guard with slung carbines outside the Assembly. Inside, the sit-down strike continued. Opposition Assemblymen slept beside their desks. In a seat near the rostrum, tiny Park Soon Chun, the only woman member of the Democratic Party in the Assembly, tiredly wiped her glasses...
Trucks filled with police and plainclothesmen suddenly roared into the street, drew up at the Assembly entrance. Moving at the double, the police burst through the flimsy barricades and charged the Assemblymen. A tangle of fighting, cursing men rolled on the floor or tumbled over desks, chairs and other writhing bodies. Park Soon Chun went down from a blow to the jaw. One by one, bleeding and still struggling, the sit-down strikers were hauled from the chamber and down the corridors, past jeering, pro-government Assemblymen of the Liberal Party. Eight had to be sent to the hospital...
...year. The audience's response was silence; to cheer might have been regarded as a sign of disrespect. But when Chiang went on to explain that close adherence to the constitution was "one of our weapons in waging war against the Communists," the audience, most of them National Assemblymen, broke into applause...