Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rhee might still be there if it had not been for one man: General Song Yo Chan (see box), South Korea's hard-driving army chief of staff, whom Rhee had entrusted with the task of enforcing martial law in Seoul and four other restless Korean cities. "I myself believed the students' demands were just." admitted Song late last week. Song was also convinced that unless Rhee gave way, the only way the Korean army could save Rhee's government would be by shooting down students in droves...
Deliberate Man. To avert such a blood bath, Song deliberately set out to jolt Rhee out of the presidency. In three successive interviews, the general hammered at Rhee with heavy hints that if the students rioted again, the Korean army would probably refuse to shoot or even to quell them, and the two U.S. divisions manning the border with North Korea might well be withdrawn from the peninsula. Rhee listened, but temporized...
...curfew hour came, the crowd had swelled to monster proportions. Suddenly, some of the bolder demonstrators clambered onto passing tanks shouting: "Long live our soldiers." Doffing their helmets, the young tank crewmen joined the crowd in tribute to the students killed in earlier rioting by singing a Korean war song that begins...
John M. Chang, 60, whose Korean name is Chang Myun, is Korea's leading Catholic layman and the most articulate spokesman for the opposition Democratic Party. Broad-shouldered and sil ver-haired, he looks like the dean of a divinity school, is actually a for mer Seoul high school principal who studied law at New York's Manhattan College (1925). Of his seven children, six are U.S. -educated, two are studying for the priesthood. Once Rhee's Prime Minister and trusted lieutenant, Chang rebelled in 1950 when Rhee proposed to alter the constitution to make himself independent...
...corruption and brutality of the Rhee regime, many mem bers of Chang's own party were disappointed by the defeatist line ("I stand before you a lone duck in the autumn sky") that he took during his unsuccessful bid for re-election earlier this year. Last week, as Koreans asked why Chang had stayed silent and at home during the Seoul riots, his friends explained: "He would have liked to have been out in the streets to lead the students, but his presence might have been the spark that touched off an even bigger conflagration." It was an explanation...