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...fact is that South Korea's newspapers, after a year of heady freedom under ousted Premier John M. Chang, are thoroughly cowed. Hard put to scrape up news that will not offend the tough, jaunty officers who run the country, they dutifully print government handouts verbatim, sometimes run ads two or three times, at no extra charge, simply to fill space. Fortnight ago, when the respected Hankook Ilbo indiscreetly printed a telegram criticizing retired U.S. General James A. Van Fleet's visit at the junta's invitation (TIME, July 28), it was ordered...
...Korean war, is a bit of a hero to every South Korean, and often called "the father of the ROK army." Invited to Korea by the junta, Van Fleet briskly put his seal of approval on the generals' coup d'etat against democratically elected Premier John Chang. "The finest thing that has happened to Korea in a thousand years," declared Van Fleet...
...aware of the U.S.'s official disapproval of the junta's strong-arm methods, he was undeterred. Van Fleet criticized the U.S.'s former U.N. commander, Carter B. Magruder, who on the day of the coup ordered top South Korean officers to remain loyal to John Chang's civilian government. "General Magruder acted illegally," declared Van Fleet. "Those ROK generals who refused to go along with the coup should have disobeyed his order." In fact. Van Fleet suggested, the Koreans were not yet ready for democracy. Said he: "It's all right to talk about...
...reassure the U.S. top brass, Pak named a U.S. favorite as new Premier in General Chang's place. He is retired Lieut. General "Tiger" Song Yo Chan, 43, who as army chief of staff in May, 1960, pressured old President Syngman Rhee into resigning without a blood bath, then held the rioting students at bay until the nation calmed down. Song retired soon thereafter, has been studying politics and economics at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Last month the junta generals called him back to South Korea to serve as the new regime's Defense Minister...
...Other Chang. So far, the junta generals had been devoting themselves mainly to arrests of prostitutes, jaywalkers, hooligans, and harassment of suspected Communists, liberals and corrupt politicians. Pak's first major move after taking over was to set off in full cry after the liberals again. Announcing a new law providing penalties up to death for Communist collaborators, the junta arrested former Premier John Chang and seven of his Democratic Party Cabinet ministers who were in his Cabinet before the May 16 coup, labeling them "proCommunist plotters." Although John Chang is a Catholic and a well-known antiCommunist...