Word: koje
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Another: "Dachau was a death camp. Koje is a whole island of death run by American hangmen...
...Minister of Defense, Alexander had been dispatched by a Britain concerned about what it considered U.S. intransigence at Panmunjom, its ineptitude at Koje, and its indifference to the lawlessness of Syngman Rhee. After inspecting the battlefield and talking to U.S. officers, Alexander gave an entirely different military estimate: "Very well organized, well prepared, very satisfactory...
...been sending stories on Japan's regained sovereignty, the prisoner-of-war camp incidents, the May Day riots, and Korean politics. Says Bureau Chief Dwight Martin: "The biggest problem is trying to figure out from one day to the next which way the cat is going to jump -Koje, Pusan, Seoul, Panmunjom, Japan, or at the front...
...objecting to everything, including the fact that the meeting was being held in Shreveport instead of New Orleans. At that, Shreveport's fiery Judson M. Grimmet (who at one point threatened to hit an Eisenhower man) brandished his walking stick and shouted: "You would think we were on Koje Island." Replied Wisdom: "That's right. It is like Koje Island. We are prisoners of the state machine...
...Koje Island's new prison commandant, a first-class combat man, emerged last week as a soldier who could also use his wits in the most disagreeable of rear-area jobs. Boldly and shrewdly, Brigadier General Haydon L. Boatner had chosen Compound 76, scene of the Dodd-Colson coup, as the first to be tackled in bringing order to the prison. After the bloody battle in which Compound 76's 6,000 hard-core Communists were subdued (TIME, June 16), the other tough enclosures on Koje toppled like ninepins, with no further fighting between guards and prisoners...