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What the students were shouting about was President Chung Hee Park's recent agreement with Japan settling the longstanding grievances between the two nations (TIME, April 2), including a new fishing pact that many Koreans consider excessively advantageous to the Japanese. And what soon gave the student uprising a special focus was the emergence of a "martyr," Tonggook University Student Kim Chung Bai, 21, who died of a skull fracture in the opening round of riots. Protest "mourning rallies" blossomed, and 100 Tonggook coeds solemnly paraded wearing black ribbons for their dead hero...
...last month. Greater U.S. involvement has also boosted South Vietnamese morale. Still, no U.S. or South Vietnamese officials were naive enough to believe that the tide had yet turned in the overall battle. Political instability is still rife in Saigon, where last week a brief mutiny threatened Admiral Chung Tan Cang, boss of the South Vietnamese navy, and set the capital aquiver with coup rumors. The mutiny died away, but no sparks are ever totally extinguished in Saigon. And for all the government success on the ground, Hanoi, with its great reserves of manpower and stubbornness, still calls the final...
...Marking the third anniversary of his military takeover in South Korea, General Chung Hee Park confessed last month that he was sorry about how things had worked out thus far. He admitted that the coup's objectives-prosperity, solving the food shortage, arresting inflation, halting corruption-had not yet been achieved, added mournfully, "I sorely regret this." Last week, after two months of .growing unrest, Park was joined in his regret by thousands of rioting students...
...President Park Chung Hee last week closed five of his six presidential villas, and having set that example, called on his people to begin a nationwide bout of belt tightening. The reason: a further decline in South Korea's shaky economy. So, said Park, government officials must stop driving cars and learn to commute by bus or bicycle, reduce their liquor intake and cut restaurant side dishes to a maximum of three. In keeping with his austere mood, Park advised women to wear their skirts shorter and demanded crew cuts for men. Above all, civil servants must stay...
...were garlanded with wreaths and newly made flags decorated storefronts and streetcars. The midnight curfew was lifted for the day, and 5,000 prison inmates were released on amnesty. In a bone-chilling drizzle before the national capitol building, 15,000 shivering spectators watched former military Strongman General Park Chung Hee, 46, take the oath of office as South Korea's fifth civilian President. Promising never "to permit the resurgence of dictatorship under any disguise or pretext," Park said: "The bright morning of the new republic has dawned. Let us put depression, melancholy, confusion and pessimism behind...