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Giant orange-and-white umbrellas fashioned out of parachutes lined the mall to Saigon's Independence Palace, and everywhere the capital blossomed in red-and-yellow South Vietnamese flags. U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Korean Premier Chung Il-Kwon, Thai Deputy Premier Praphas Charusathien and the emissaries of some 20 other foreign governments journeyed to Viet Nam to witness this week's inauguration of President Nguyen Van Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky. To celebrate the occasion, all Saigon zestfully prepared to take a brief holiday from war in a 48-hour round of ceremony and state...
...SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). The role of South Korean troops in the Viet Nam war is examined in "The ROKs: Savages or Saviors?" Film of the Tiger Division in action, plus interviews with Korean Prime Minister II Kwon Chung and General William Westmoreland...
Seven weeks ago, another struggling Asian nation-South Korea-staged its most peaceful postwar election as voters quietly returned reform-minded President Chung Hee Park to office for another four-year term. Last week, after separate elections for the National Assembly, South Korea suddenly reverted to its old noisy ways. For five straight days, thousands of high school and university students boiled through the streets of Seoul and 14 other cities, waving angry placards ("We demand new elections"), throwing rocks and bottles, and fighting through a police barrage of tear gas and night sticks...
...Carnegie Hall, the Leventritt jury outdid itself. It ranked the four violin finalists so closely that it took the unprecedented step of asking each to play again. Then, for the first time in the competition's 27-year history, it named two winners: Korea's Kyung-Wha Chung, 19, and Israel's Pinchas Zuckerman, 18, both scholarship students at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music and products of eminent Juilliard Teacher Ivan Galamian...
...Four years ago, South Korea's tough little retired army general Chung Hee Park scraped into the presidency with a bare 156,000-vote margin over former President (1960-62) and onetime Archaeologist Posun Yun, 69. Last week, Park showed just how far he and his country have come in those four years. In South Korea's most peaceful election in postwar years, more than 11 million out of 14 million eligible voters turned out to give Park and his reform-minded Democratic Republican Party a margin of more than 1,000,000 votes over...