Word: chan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Announcing their comebacks after long retirements : two fiftyish former cinema stalwarts - Anna May Wong, 53, who quit the screen 17 years ago after count less mystery women roles in Fu Manchu and Charlie Chan easterns; and Leni Riefenstahl, 53, German film star of the 1930s, called by Hitler "the perfect ex ample of German womanhood," who will redirect a remake of a movie in which she once starred, The Blue Light...
Under cover of a passion for justice, many South Koreans are busier working off old grudges and personal vendettas than in reconstructing their disrupted state. Fortnight ago a cabal of personal enemies and ambitious junior officers forced the resignation of Army Chief of Staff General Song Yo Chan, the man primarily responsible for pressuring ex-President Syngman Rhee out of office without a nationwide blood bath. This week the vengeance-seekers caught up with Rhee himself...
...barricades they had demanded new elections. Now they were irritated to find the same old National Assembly still in session and long-windedly debating constitutional changes. In Pusan, Taegu, and Seoul itself, they staged new demonstrations demanding dissolution of the Assembly. Army Boss Lieut. General Song Yo Chan called out armored cars, tanks and tear gas, but ordered his troops to avoid strong-arm tactics. "The army will stay aloof from politics," declared the government. As for the hated Assembly, it was willing to bring charges against five of its Liberal Party members and expel them. But the legislators...
Rhee might still be there if it had not been for one man: General Song Yo Chan (see box), South Korea's hard-driving army chief of staff, whom Rhee had entrusted with the task of enforcing martial law in Seoul and four other restless Korean cities. "I myself believed the students' demands were just." admitted Song late last week. Song was also convinced that unless Rhee gave way, the only way the Korean army could save Rhee's government would be by shooting down students in droves...
General Song Yo Chan, 42, is a bull-chested (5 ft. 11 in., 215 lbs.) professional fighting man who boasts that "I have fought 200 battles and never lost one." A farmer's son who was conscripted by the Japanese army and served as a sergeant in the Japanese infantry during World War II, Song was one of the first officers commissioned in the Korean forces, rose in four years (1946-50) from second lieutenant to brigadier general. As commander of the R.O.K. army's crack Capital Division for most of the Korean war, he fought brilliantly...