Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ideas and into the hard facts of reality. It is then that they begin to quarrel and plot against one another. Last week, after only a month and a half, South Korea's military revolution was already devouring its own offspring. Out went Junta Boss Lieut. General Chang...
...reassure the U.S. top brass, Pak named a U.S. favorite as new Premier in General Chang's place. He is retired Lieut. General "Tiger" Song Yo Chan, 43, who as army chief of staff in May, 1960, pressured old President Syngman Rhee into resigning without a blood bath, then held the rioting students at bay until the nation calmed down. Song retired soon thereafter, has been studying politics and economics at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Last month the junta generals called him back to South Korea to serve as the new regime's Defense Minister...
...classified as "civilian personnel.'' With little real responsibility, many of the remaining 625 might be bored with the Guard-were it not for the annual training in Gulfport. Says Louisiana's Colonel Milton O. Barth: "It's a real fine morale factor." Says Lieut. Colonel Daniel F. Hynes, the 159th's executive officer: "These men are dedicated." They sure are -and they sure ought...
Facts of Life. Who was boss within the junta was still anybody's guess. Last week Lieut. General Chang Do Yung's responsibilities were pared, though he remained Prime Minister and chairman of the 32-man Supreme Council. Major General Pak Chung Hi, believed by some to have masterminded the coup, was upped to chairman of the council's inner Standing Committee. Still other Korean observers are convinced that the real power is increasingly in the hands of nine young colonels on the council...
...Died. Lieut. General Mikhail V. Khrunichev, 60, barrel-chested former blacksmith who only eight weeks ago was named a Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union, boss of a newly created agency charged with mobilizing all applied science; of a heart attack; in Moscow...