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...capital's Mayor Walter Washington in the violence following Martin Luther King's assassination. In November, Vance negotiated a peaceful settlement of the Cyprus crisis; in February he soothed irate South Koreans who wished to retaliate when a North Korean commando squad attempted to assassinate President Chung Hee Park just two days before the seizure of the U.S.S. Pueblo...
...police to infiltrators or spies who turn up in their villages. Nearly 90% of the 57 Communist infiltrators caught in the past year were captured on information supplied by villagers. In fact, it was four village woodcutters who helped foil North Korea's assassination attempt on President Chung Hee Park last January. Just to keep peasants in the same cooperative mood, Park has put up bounty signs all over the country ("Become a patriot and get rich by catching a spy"), and raised the reward money for informers from...
While continuing these diplomatic efforts, the U.S. was hinting none too subtly that the bombing restriction might not be continued indefinitely. Johnson, in Honolulu to confer with South Korean President Chung Hee Park about both Viet Nam and Seoul's security problems (see THE WORLD), stressed that it had been a long time since the bombing limitation began on March 31. "Our restraint," added Rusk, "was meant to inspire discussions about ending this war, not to provide an excuse for propaganda warfare while the battle raged...
...incidents were part of a growing pattern of provocation and violence by the North - and as such, a major reason for President Chung Hee Park's trip to Honolulu last week to meet with President Johnson. In private conversations attended only by the two Presidents and their interpreters, Johnson briefed Park on U.S. plans for peace talks on Viet Nam, apparently convinced him that the U.S. intends neither to make reckless concessions to the Communists nor to leave South Korea. Their joint communique noted President Park's "satisfaction with these developments...
This week Johnson was to fly to Honolulu for talks with South Korea's President Chung Hee Park, who has 52,000 troops in Viet Nam, and with top U.S. Pacific commanders. While the emphasis there is likely to be on the fighting, Johnson is well aware that his countrymen will be looking for some signs of progress on the diplomatic front...