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...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...
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...
...civilian democracy would return, though he was naming no dates. "We have not killed anyone, and no one will be killed without reason. We have a love of freedom. A patriotic cause moved our soldiers. This should be properly understood." But neither Chang nor tough little Major General Pak Chung-Hi, whom many consider the real power behind the junta, was willing to put the 7,000 Korean troops used in the revolt back under the authority of the United Nations Korea commander, the U.S.'s Carter B. Magruder. Only after hours of patient negotiation was a compromise reached...
Premier's Problems. Was General Chang the new boss? The man who planned the coup was not Chang but his powerful colleague on the junta, Major General Pak Chung Hi, 44. Reportedly, Pak's representatives went to Chang, told him that if he did not come to lead the coup, "we will have to kill you." Even as the uprising got under way, General Chang rushed off to see Magruder; for most of the first day, it was not certain whether Chang would lead the revolt or quell...
...Vnukovo, Chairman Liu raised his arms in salute to Chairman Khrushchev. But on the eve of Liu's departure, Peking had seized on the pretext of the publication of a fourth volume of Mao Tse-tung's selected works to print an "introduction"' by General Fu Chung, in which the general pointedly quoted old Mao dicta on war and peace and, inferentially, challenged Khrushchev's favorite doctrine of peaceful coexistence. "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun," quoted Fu. "Politics is war that sheds no blood while war is bloodshedding politics." Against...