Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flying a reconnaissance mission over the Sea of Japan, 50 miles off the North Korean coast, its electronic ears attuned to the radio and radar of the Communist half of the peninsula. Suddenly, two North Korean MIG-17 jet fighters flashed down. Though the U.S. plane was clearly over international waters and flying a course parallel to the Korean shore line, the Red jets opened fire with cannon and machine guns...
...line between North and South Viet Nam was intended to be temporary does not make the assault on South Viet Nam any less of an aggression. The demarcation lines between North and South Korea and between East and West Germany are temporary. But that did not make the North Korean invasion of South Korea a permissible use of force...
...John Sargent, 33, a Korean War marine veteran of New London, N.H., called his minister to his home to report the killing of his wife and four children. Police found Mrs. Janet Sargent, 30, bludgeoned and shot to death; the children, aged three to nine, had been shot. Sargent, variously described as "the nicest guy in the world," "morose," and one who "just couldn't make his way in life," was charged with first-degree murder and sent to the state mental hospital for examination...
Almost exactly five years ago, South Korean students swept into the streets of Seoul for a week of rioting that finally brought the downfall of Syngman Rhee. Last week students were on the rampage again with the same strident tone of reckless abandon. First, 2,000 chanting collegians traded stones for tear gas with mesh-masked police. Three days later, a mob of 6,000 swarmed through the capital's main streets. On and on it went, until the daily demonstrations mushroomed to 10,000 youths in Seoul, with lesser eruptions in other cities as well...
...Negroes have distinguished themselves in battle. Yet it was not until 1940 that a U.S. Negro attained the rank of general. Fourteen years after General Benjamin Oliver Davis won that distinction, his son, a rangy West Pointer and bemedaled World War II fighter squadron leader, came back from the Korean War to become the first of his race to win the two stars of a major general. Now, after distinguished service as an Air Force Deputy chief of staff in the Pentagon, Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr., 52, is heading back to South Korea, where President Johnson has picked...