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...ideas and into the hard facts of reality. It is then that they begin to quarrel and plot against one another. Last week, after only a month and a half, South Korea's military revolution was already devouring its own offspring. Out went Junta Boss Lieut. General Chang...
...Yung, front man for the new regime. In came Major General Pak Chung Hi, Chang's former "deputy" and the real strongman behind the May coup...
Ostensibly, General Chang quit of his own free will. "The foundations of a revolutionary regime have been to a degree established," the military Premier announced. "I am voluntarily resigning, since I realize the urgent need of a more aggressive leader who will be able to carry out stronger policies." In fact, his retirement had been hastened by a truckload of Pak's troops, who swooped onto General Chang's home in the predawn hours and hustled the startled victim off to Seoul's capitol building. Getting the point, General Chang called an emergency cabinet meeting and made...
Facts of Life. Who was boss within the junta was still anybody's guess. Last week Lieut. General Chang Do Yung's responsibilities were pared, though he remained Prime Minister and chairman of the 32-man Supreme Council. Major General Pak Chung Hi, believed by some to have masterminded the coup, was upped to chairman of the council's inner Standing Committee. Still other Korean observers are convinced that the real power is increasingly in the hands of nine young colonels on the council...
...facts of Korean life. U.S. General Carter Magruder last week took U.S. troops in Korea off "green alert," announced he would cooperate with the new regime. President Kennedy formally recognized the new government's existence in a terse two-sentence telegram to "Prime Minister" Chang thanking the general for a birthday message-but making no mention of the invitation to visit the U.S. that Chang hankers...