Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francis Powers finished high school in Grundy, Va., got a B.A. at Milligan College in Tennessee, and enlisted in the Air Force. In 1951 he was accepted for aviation cadet training, got his wings a year later. But even during the Korean war, when he was a full-fledged jet fighter pilot. Powers never saw service overseas. The Air Force did not seem to hold enough excitement for him, and in 1956 he resigned "to seek employment with civilian industry...
...police station. "Give us our president!" roared the students, now 5,000 strong and boiling mad. By the time President Onar was brought back, they were past heeding his call to go home. They poured past sympathetic soldiers into Beyazit Square, where they sang and shouted slogans praising South Korean students. The cops threw tear-gas bombs; the students picked them up and threw them back. When mounted police charged, students jabbed lighted cigarettes under the horses, making them rear and throw their riders...
What had they hoped to accomplish? Grumbled a student: "What else can we do against Kishi? Korean students had the right idea - look what happened to Syngman Rhee." A Korean newsman who had watched the riot said wonderingly: "They must be crazy. Korea and Japan are entirely different situations. Don't they know they live in the freest society on earth today...
...days in bed with an upset stomach, on election day went to Panmunjom to watch a routine armistice meeting. But Lucas nonetheless filed on the election. He found it "less violent than in the past," dismissed charges of widespread election frauds as the transparent alibi of the defeated South Korean Democratic Party, which he claimed had been aided in its deceit by "segments of the American press" (other U.S. correspondents in Korea, persuaded that the elections had been rigged, promptly banded together in a "Segment Club"). According to Lucas, bloody post-election-day rioting in Masan" was no more than...
...Republic of Korea in the months ahead will govern at the pleasure of the mob," wrote Lucas. "That this could happen in Korea - which I've come to regard as my second home - is unbelievable." But it was really no more unbelievable than Lucas' reporting of the Korean upheaval...