Word: kwon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Assembly swirled around a smuggling scandal concerning some 92 tons of saccharin that had been illegally imported from Japan by an arm of the multimillion-dollar Samsung business combine. Charges of government involvement flew from the backbenches; indignant silence wreathed the Cabinet ministers of Premier II Kwon Chung. Then tall, tough Kim Do Han, 49, an independent Assemblyman from Seoul with a reputation as a street brawler, took the rostrum to question the Cabinet. With him he carried a three-gallon can marked "saccharin...
...special liaison group have lived and worked daily with the Korean Tigers [July 22] since their arrival in Viet Nam. They rank professionally with any fighting unit we've known. We find them "brutally efficient," but nowhere have we seen any grave sitting, tae kwon do cheekbone splitting, or mutilation by skinning. Had the Tigers done these things, 695 Viet Cong would never have surrendered...
...just past the ear from behind while they are sitting on the edge of an open grave, or by a swift, cheekbone-shattering flick of a Korean's bare hand. (Every Korean soldier from Commanding General Chae Myung Shin on down practices for 30 minutes each day tae kwon do, the Korean version of karate.) Once, when the mutilated body of a Korean soldier was found in a Viet Cong-sympathizing village, the Koreans tracked down a Viet Cong, skinned him and hung him up in the village. Not surprisingly, captured Viet Cong orders now stipulate that contact with...