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...Draconic drive to eliminate corruption from South Korea, austere Strong man General Park Chung Hee has cracked down hardest on the nation's smugglers...
...sternest gesture yet from the "New Life" military government of General Park Chung Hee, 44, the olive-drab moralist who regards his mission as nothing short of "remaking Korean man." After General Park's junta assumed power last May, gamblers and hustlers soon found themselves in road gangs, millionaires were stripped of their wealth, and frills like engagement rings, high weddings or elaborate funerals were forbidden. When goods continued to be smuggled in from Japan, Hong Kong and American PXs, General Park proclaimed: "The sight of luxury goods arouses wanton desires in the mind of the people. Burn them...
...palatial home of Army Chief of Staff General Chang Do Yung and bluntly told him: "Join the coup or we will kill you." After thinking it over for several hours, General Chang reluctantly agreed, became Premier and front man for the tough reform regime of General Park Chung Hee. Scarcely six weeks later, accused of obstructing the revolution. General Chang was put under house arrest.* Last week, dressed in the shabby white robe of a common laborer, he was sentenced to the gallows by a five-man military court in Seoul...
...executions were carried out by the ruling military junta, headed by General Park Chung Hee, who some observers feel is being just a shade too zealous as a reformer. General Park confirmed the death sentences but delicately refrained from having them carried out until after he had made his good-will visit to U.S. President John Kennedy last month, during which he won strong U.S. backing...
With his stony expression, his dark glasses and dark civilian suits, the erect little man who flew into Washington last week sometimes looked like a bad 'un out of a foreign-intrigue movie. But Chung Hee Park, 44, the South Korean leader who normally wears the olive drab uniform of a four-star general, had little reason to smile, and he was keeping his military trappings out of sight for good purpose. His trip was aimed at winning Administration support for the military dictatorship he set up in South Korea last May with the avowed goal of rooting...