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Radio stations, guarded by machine guns, rang with martial music and the stern decrees of the new Korean leaders. All political parties were banned, and most of the Cabinet ministers in former Premier John Chang's government were clapped in jail. Nine elected provincial governors as well as the mayors of the big cities were ousted and replaced by soldiers. Seventeen prosecutors investigating corruption for the old regime were arrested and jailed. Strikes were banned, and the seven-day work week was now mandatory. Along with known Communists, thousands of liberals were jailed, and politicians nervously avoided their...
...General Chang Do Yung, who appointed himself Premier, seemed intent on stamping out the evils of years in the space of a few days. To help Korea's starving peasants, many of whom have been forced to mortgage their crops at as much as 80% interest, Chang froze all loans bearing interest rates of more than 20% a year. To clear Seoul's slums, bulldozers were sent to raze acres of cardboard and tin shacks. The bewildered inhabitants were ordered to clean up the debris, then were trucked off to a barren new site, where they were bundled...
Work or Else. In their zeal the soldiers were showing a pronounced impatience with due process of law. "We can arrest, detain and punish anyone," snapped Chang...
...leading up to a permanent, perhaps bloody, dictatorship? No, insisted Chang, civilian democracy would return, though he was naming no dates. "We have not killed anyone, and no one will be killed without reason. We have a love of freedom. A patriotic cause moved our soldiers. This should be properly understood." But neither Chang nor tough little Major General Pak Chung-Hi, whom many consider the real power behind the junta, was willing to put the 7,000 Korean troops used in the revolt back under the authority of the United Nations Korea commander, the U.S.'s Carter...
Seoul embassy had backed the wrong horse by its abrupt support of the ousted Premier. But in Seoul, General Chang stood before reporters in his combat fatigues to shrug it all off. "There should be no trouble at all as far as U.S. -Korean relations are concerned," said Chang. "Our armed forces in the past have had closer relations with U.S. authorities than any other Korean agency. Therefore I believe the U.S. Government will support us more positively than ever before...