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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...
...Word to the Cops. By afternoon, Rhee called in Army Chief of Staff Lieut. General Song Yo Chan and placed Seoul under martial law. Rumbling into town with old Sherman tanks, the 15th ROK Infantry Division took over from the hated police. Genial, able General Song was firm, but his sympathies clearly lay with the students. "Call on me any time," he told a student delegation. As for the police, he warned bluntly: "Policemen found beating, torturing or abusing anyone will be dealt with under martial...
...virtues of the Phoenix Theater's lively production is that, as staged by Stuart Vaughan, it keeps a happy balance, values its martial clang and stir, sets broadsword heroics against tankard humor, and is never for a moment a one-man show. But it is no less a virtue of the current production that Eric Berry's robustly nimble and resourceful Falstaff is by all odds the play's best-acted role. Donald Madden's Hotspur is properly dynamic too, though it substitutes mere energy for fire and dash. As Henry, Fritz Weaver makes a well...
...great days of the British Empire. In the gilded splendor of Lancaster House, only a few hundred yards from Buckingham Palace, sat Moslems in silk turbans, Arabs in kaffiyehs, Indians in business suits, suntanned white settlers, a handful of Africans. From the street outside sounded the martial music of a passing detachment of Coldstream Guards...
ALGIERS, Algeria, Jan. 24--Angry crowds fought riot police with guns tonight, goaded by French rightist leaders to rise against President Charles de Gaulle. The French commander termed it a mutiny and placed the rebellious capital under martial law and ordered regiments of troops into the city...