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Koje Island's new prison commandant, a first-class combat man, emerged last week as a soldier who could also use his wits in the most disagreeable of rear-area jobs. Boldly and shrewdly, Brigadier General Haydon L. Boatner had chosen Compound 76, scene of the Dodd-Colson coup, as the first to be tackled in bringing order to the prison. After the bloody battle in which Compound 76's 6,000 hard-core Communists were subdued (TIME, June 16), the other tough enclosures on Koje toppled like ninepins, with no further fighting between guards and prisoners...
...incredible story of chaos and bloodshed in the U.N.'s prison stockades, of almost complete lack of U.N. control, continued to emerge last week. On top of the disgraceful Dodd-Colson affair came new light on prisoner cabals that scorned interference by U.N. guards. Worst of all, observers were beginning to realize that the prisoner vote on repatriation, which at first had seemed the only creditable and politically valuable aspect of the whole affair, had not been arrived at by the U.N. in a true and careful polling, but was in some-cases a rough & ready guess...
Army Secretary Frank Pace Jr. told a Senate committee that "the entire Army" was "deeply shocked" by the capture of Camp Commander Francis T. Dodd by his prisoners. Both Dodd and Brigadier General Charles F. Colson, who agreed to the compromising ransom terms, were busted to their permanent rank of colonel. To Colson's immediate superior, Brigadier General Paul F. Yount, went a formal "administrative reprimand...
...Haneda airport, General Mark Wayne Clark, the new Far East commander, watched his predecessor, General Matt Ridgway, fly happily off to the U.S., leaving Clark with a mess on his hands. Ample portions of blame had already been meted out to the two squirming brigadiers, Dodd and Colson, but some blame would undoubtedly fall on Ridgway and on the Eighth Army's Van Fleet...
Comes the Bull. After a three-hour telecon talk with the Pentagon, Clark moved to set things to rights. He had already fired Colson as commandant; he now repudiated Colson's concessions as having "no validity whatsoever." Clark sent a tough, Chinese-speaking combat commander, Brigadier General Haydon Lemaire Boatner, to take over on Koje, followed by the battle-seasoned 187th Airborne Regiment, 3,000 men strong...