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...What a waste!" When the bonfire had died on White Sand Beach near Seoul last week, $20,000 in small luxuries had been destroyed. Since then the brightest lights on Korea's bleak landscape are from bonfires: a $100,000 blaze in Pusan, a $40,000 fire in Masan. Other fires are due in Seoul until $230,000 in confiscated goods are destroyed...
...defeated South Korean Democratic Party, which he claimed had been aided in its deceit by "segments of the American press" (other U.S. correspondents in Korea, persuaded that the elections had been rigged, promptly banded together in a "Segment Club"). According to Lucas, bloody post-election-day rioting in Masan" was no more than the work of Communist agitators...
...March, when Rhee's musclemen flagrantly rigged the vice-presidential election to count out Vice President John M. Chang and "elect" Rhee's chosen heir, ailing Lee Ki Poong. But the students were less docile. Fortnight ago, their anger flared into rioting at the port city of Masan (TIME, April 25). In other cities, other students marched in demonstrations. One warm spring morning last week, it was Seoul's turn...
...presidential race by 200,000 votes. Lee ran again at Rhee's orders this year and won with an incredible overall majority of 8,300,000 to Chang's 1,800,000. An unswerving apologist for Rhee's policies-he defended the election-day massacre in Masan with the cold comment: "The police were given guns to shoot with, not as toys"-Lee has willingly served as whipping boy for all Rhee's political excesses. In Rhee's eyes, this has more than offset the fact that Lee has appeared in South Korea...
Outraged by the election and the bloodshed it produced in Masan. more and more influential Koreans have found the courage to speak out against Rhee. After investigating the election-day riot in Masan, the Korea Bar Association reported: "Police deliberately sought to fabricate evidence of a Communist conspiracy by beating up arrested persons, including wounded ones, and telling them that unless they admitted to participating in a Communist plot, they would be tied in bags and thrown into the sea." Last week, despite a "national security" law which provides penalties of up to ten years in jail for anyone...