Word: koo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million laymen to go forth two-by-two ringing doorbells, special ministers' meetings in all important cities and communities, the organization of missions on college and senior high-school campuses, speeches and sermons by churchmen from other lands -England's Bishop Stephen Neill, China's T.Z. Koo, Mexico's Baez-Camargo, Scotland's J. Hutchison Cockburn, India's E. Stanley Jones...
Jail, exile, violence and intrigue had been part & parcel of Kim Koo's life for more than half a century. At 19, he killed a Japanese policeman in Korea, served several years in prison. Later Kim Koo went into exile in China, further enhanced his reputation both as an intense Korean nationalist and ruthless political terrorist: To friend & foe alike, he became known as "The Tiger...
...Koo was a Rightist, but he soon broke with Rightist President Syngman Rhee. Kim made a bitter fight against establishment of the U.S.-sponsored South Korean Republic, which he felt would permanently divide his homeland...
...last week, the tired, 73-year-old terrorist was resting alone in a second-floor bedroom of his house in Seoul. Shortly after noon, a young Korean army lieutenant, known to the police who guarded the "Tiger's" home dropped in for a visit. He talked with Kim Koo for about five minutes. Then he drew a .45-caliber automatic and fired six shots; four of them struck Kim Koo, who died almost instantly. Later, police reported that the lieutenant had slain Kim Koo to prevent him from using part of the Korean army "for his own purposes...
Died. Kim Koo, 73, head of Korea's right-wing Independence Party; by assassination (he was shot by a Korean army lieutenant); in Seoul, Korea (see FOREIGN NEWS...