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...conspirators were soon arrested and the government reported ''many others'' were taken for questioning. Meanwhile, the Cabinet was called into emergency session; as prescribed by the constitution, Premier Choi, a loyal Park administrator, was named Acting President. The army Chief of Staff, General Chung Seung Hwa, was placed in charge of martial law; he immediately ordered a nighttime curfew and press censorship. South Korea's 200 universities and colleges were closed, and a division of troops was moved into the Seoul area against possible disorders...
Although there have been rumors of large donations from industries in Japan and Korea, this is not the case. But Moon has interests in a number of businesses in many countries, among them South Korea's II Hwa pharmaceutical company, which exports ginseng tea, and Tong II Industries, which manufac tures air rifles. Moon exploits the talent and energy of his hard-core disciples, who go on the streets to sell flowers, candles, peanuts and ginseng tea. Their take is considerable-perhaps $10 million a year, and because his cult is legally a religion, all income is tax free...
...Communist bank is directed by Chairman Nan Han-chen, 73, a deceptively benign looking finance specialist who took part in the abortive 1936 kidnaping of Chiang Kai-shek by Shensi-province Reds. Taiwan's bank is headed by ascetic Yu Kuo-hwa, 51, a veteran follower of Chiang who studied at Harvard and the London School of Economics. Taiwan's branches abroad are becoming the bank's vital arm. Last year the Nationalist bank reported earnings of $3,200,000, its biggest profit-and $2,300,000 of that came from overseas operations...
...each chapter, as in Mathematics for the Million, Hogben attaches quizzes for the conscientious reader, who is expected to find English equivalents for endless lists of Latin and Greek words and phrases and to translate from a 1,000-year-old English Gospel ("He dysegath, hwa maeg sinna forgifan buton God ana?"*)-all without any answers from Hogben...
Chow with Chou. Chou En-lai gave a cocktail party which Peking radio described as "proceeding in a friendly atmosphere." Later that night, he and tired Dag Hammarskjold dined in private. Talks began next morning in the ornate Hsi Hwa (West Splendor) hall of Peking's Forbidden City. Hammarskjold and Chou, flanked by their advisers, sat on a damask sofa, interspersing their legal arguments with sips of jasmine-scented tea, served in eggshell porcelain cups...