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...Marine Corps Major General George Cloud called the 176th meeting of the Military Armistice Commission at Panmunjom and delivered a blistering attack on his Communist opposite number, sleepy-eyed General Chung Hwan Chang, demanding that he curb his "bloodthirsty marauders." Chang insolently replied that North Korea was not at fault and that, undoubtedly, "you have deliberately murdered some of your own personnel in a scheme serving your political purposes." When Cloud displayed a collection of weapons taken from the slain North Korean raiders, Chang picked up"~a pistol and made as if to shoot the American. "Where is your dignity...
Imperialist Aggressive Troops from South Korea." The occasion is getting little recognition in South Korea, whose citizens are more concerned with their country's chaotic politics and reeling economy; beset by crop failures, scandals and corruption, the once puritan regime of Army Strongman General Park Chung Hee is in deep trouble. But Panmunjom celebrated the anniversary in its own way by holding the 175th meeting of the Armistice Commission...
...with the medical diploma and the other parchments of pro fessional achievement on the wall of Dr. Alan R. Grain's Washington, D.C., office hangs a reminder of a recent six-week vacation. It is no mounted marlin or spread of ten-point antlers-only another certificate. "Nay chung-nhan," it begins, which is Vietnamese for "This is to certify," and goes on to let it be known with gold seal and red ribbon that Dr. Grain served this spring as a visiting orthopedic surgeon at the crowded, understaffed Cho-Ray Hospital in Saigon...
...White House put the squeeze on the Blue House last week, and South Korea's month-long political crisis vanished-for the moment. Bowing to Washington's wishes, General Park Chung Hee, who occupies Seoul's blue-roofed presidential mansion, agreed to let civilian politicians have their say until next autumn...
...discovered how effective the Morgenthau concept of using aid as a political instrument can be. After South Korea's military head man, General Park Chung Hee. threatened to go back on his promise to permit elections in the fall, the U.S. warned that it might reduce military and economic aid to Korea. Last week General Park said that he would hold elections after all. Similarly, the U.S. recently used Brazil's need for continued aid installments to prod the government into moving to curb inflation...