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Along the Communist border, North Korea's General Bong Hak Ho has arrayed 180,000 troops, many of whom make regular forays into the South to ambush American and South Korean units; last week they killed two soldiers -one of them an American-and wounded five more. Ho is also training a special force of 2,400 commandos who operate in small teams, slipping across the border for hit-and-run sabotage and terrorism. Watching for them on the southern side are 12,000 U.S. troops of the 2nd Division, who guard the 18.5-mi. American sector...
...HAK INN RHEE Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, Mich...
HAKLUYT'S VOYAGES, edited by Irwin Blacker. The highlights of Richard Hak-luyt's amazing compendium of travel diaries, letters and essays, which eloquently chronicle Elizabethan England's rise from seagirt obscurity to world power...
...arrested. The Ministry of Finance set up screening committees charged with first identifying corrupt tax officials, then ferreting them out. The head of the Bank of Korea revealed that his institution had been used by Rhee officials to get kickbacks on loan applications. The police haul included Kang Hak Lee, chief of all Korea's police, who was charged with embezzling $120,000 from police funds and with printing fake Communist leaflets to stuff in the pockets of dead student rioters. To show its loyalty to the new order, the Bank of Korea announced that Syngman Rhee...
...badly organized, and their program in any case was moderate: peace, unity, neutrality and cooperation with all nations, including Communist China and the neighboring Viet Minh. Only a few pessimists feared that by the general election of 1960 the Pathet Lao-which renamed itself the Neo Lao Hak Xat or Patriotic Front-might successfully subvert the charming little country, into which the U.S. was annually pouring some $43 million in aid. The first surprise came when Soupha-nouvong captured 21 of the National Assembly's 59 seats last month (TIME. May 19). Last week the affable prince, 46, already...