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...themselves the guardians of democracy. Their elders had stood by helplessly last March, when Rhee's musclemen flagrantly rigged the vice-presidential election to count out Vice President John M. Chang and "elect" Rhee's chosen heir, ailing Lee Ki Poong. But the students were less docile. Fortnight ago, their anger flared into rioting at the port city of Masan (TIME, April 25). In other cities, other students marched in demonstrations. One warm spring morning last week, it was Seoul's turn...
...hunt. Paris buzzed with speculation that the kidnaping was an inside job: the timing was too perfect. But it might simply have been a case of a couple of bored hoods deciding to try that novel crime américain for a change of pace. Only a fortnight before, Paris-Presse had told them just how to go about it in a 16-part series dredging up every last detail of the Lindbergh case...
With an assassin's bullets still lodged in the head of its Prime Minister, with its black citizens still smoldering with sullen anger, with a shocked world still crying its condemnation, South Africa incredibly seemed to have learned nothing from its fortnight of revolt. Far from recognizing that something was drastically wrong, the ruling Nationalists, who are mostly Afrikaners, closed ranks. The official opposition, the United Party, which speaks for most of the English-speaking population, offered some minor quibbles but made clear that it stood shoulder to shoulder with the Nationalists in their efforts to put down...
...prey was Captain Manuel Beatón, one of the growing number of officers in Castro's army who think that Communists have perverted and appropriated Castro's revolution. Beatón popped up on the Sierra's southern slope a fortnight ago, leading a band of 60 to 80 men. He reached an army garrison, captured arms...
Lerner has even done his bit toward the awakening. Fortnight ago he cornered leftward Defense Minister Krishna Menon, got him to admit that the "unknown" planes buzzing India's frontier were, of course, Red China's. Front-paged in India, Lerner's 'story evoked angry opposition questions, a fudging denial from Menon. Huffed Menon: "Lerner is no gentleman. An English journalist would never report what was said over tea." This week Lerner will end his double educational mission in India by covering the Nehru-Chou talks and holding his last seminar. He leaves with mixed feelings...