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...upper Naktong River in southeastern Korea. Last March, when Colonel Fremont S. ("Tom") Tandy, 50, and his 32nd Engineer Construction Group arrived in Andong, they found the place more than half destroyed. The townspeople were most concerned with the bombed- out ruin of the Bridge of the Rising Buddha. It was Andong's major link with the coast of the Sea of Japan, some 60 road miles away. With the bridge out, Andong and several million inhabitants of North Kyongsang Province were having great trouble getting their food...
...County Chieftain Lee Jong Hee presented himself to West Pointer Tandy with a request: Would the Colonel kindly give the people of Andong a new Bridge of the Rising Buddha? Said Tandy: "You supply the materials and the labor; I'll supply the engineers." Tandy assigned two crews of four G.I. engineers each. Each crew worked a twelve-hour shift. Lee supplied several hundred laborers-welders, carpenters, concrete men, a blacksmith...
...Bridge of the Rising Buddha had risen once more, and food for Andong's people was soon rolling across...
...looked as though the Reds had chosen Buddha in his Panchen reincarnation to be their puppet boss in Tibet...
Doctrinally, Tibet should be ruled by two lamas: the Panchen Lama, whom esoteric Tibetans believe to be Buddha's spiritual reincarnation, and the Dalai Lama, Buddha's temporal reincarnation. Actually, the Dalai Lama and his priests have been running Tibet since 1924, when they expelled the Panchen Lama...