Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brigadier General Song Ho's loyal troops quickly drove the rebels out of Sunchon, and chased them back into the rough, hilly country to the south. It was hard to tell friend from foe. Both loyal and rebel troops wore U.S. uniforms and carried U.S. weapons. Loyal troops finally put on white armbands. Said young Lieut. Colonel Kang Yung Noon: "What sadness that we had to fire our first bullets against our own brothers...
...Detective Inspector Salomon Wasserman.) The officers had spun a yarn of a highly organized air force plot to do away with Perón. Laborista political backing was solicited. To overcome Reyes' natural skepticism, conspiratorial meetings were held in the Avenida Quintana headquarters of the Civil Aviation General Administration; Air Force General Gregorio Velez, boss of civil aviation, gave a masterly performance as leader of the plot. Laboristas took the bait...
October 12 was set as the day of the coup, and General Velez ordered a final meeting at headquarters for the night of Sept. 23. That afternoon Reyes got a tipoff, frantically called an emergency meeting at home to warn his associates. But there was a double double-cross and the police sprang the trap then & there. The name of John Griffiths, onetime U.S. embassy worker, was tossed in to give the conspiracy some foreign color. He had once been friendly with Reyes...
...Call for Help. With the elections in the offing-and Democrats making hay with the case-Hull denounced the recordings as a fake, and demanded another grand jury. Governor Green's attorney general sent a special prosecutor to Peoria to handle it. Last week the second grand jury brought in its report. It indicted Reporter Link, Big Earl Shelton and the other two witnesses to the Petrakos interview on charges of kidnaping, conspiracy and intimidation. They had seized Petrakos, the jury charged, "for the purpose of getting a confession." The grand jury also accused the Post-Dispatch...
Pounds & Pence. What is it all going to cost? Britain is now paying general practitioners a total of ?45,000,000 ($180,000,000) a year. The prewar total income of G.P.s: ?28,000,000 ($112,000,000). But general practitioners are only part of John Bull's medical bill. Meanwhile, the Health Ministry and those who oppose socialized medicine are busy hurling statistics at each other. The British Dental Association claims that the plan is costing the government seven times the estimated cost for dentistry. Not so, says Bevan: the estimated ?7,000,000 ($28,000,000) will...