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...countenance seemed to be everywhere New Yorkers looked: on commuter train posters, in full-page newspaper ads, in a flurry of broadsides handed out by earnest young men and women on the sidewalks of Manhattan. The message of his coming was brief: CHRISTIANITY IN CRISIS. NEW HOPE. REV. SUN MYUNG MOON. Last week, in Carnegie Hall, the Rev. Moon finally appeared in person to begin a four-month, 21-city "Day of Hope" tour of the U.S. His goal: nothing less than the unification of all mankind. His credentials: though Moon himself never quite claims the title, his followers believe...
...over the world filed into a huge indoor gym in the South Korean capital. The brides wore the traditional Korean maxi-length skirts and matching white chogori (blouses), and the men were dressed mainly in flannel suits. Resplendent on the platform in front of them stood Master Sun Myung Moon and his wife in golden robes and glistening crowns. As two thousand curious spectators looked on, Master Moon intoned: "Will you swear to love your spouse forever?" The 1,582 men and women responded: "Ye" (Korean...
Last week a three-judge tribunal of the Seoul District Criminal Court delivered its verdicts. It found 31 of the 34 defendants guilty. Two were sentenced to death: Kyu Myung Chung, 39, a Frankfurt University physicist, and Yong Su Cho, 34, a professor of French, both of whom supplied Pyongyang with military and political information about South Korea. Four others were condemned to life imprisonment, including Composer Yun, and the rest given prison terms from one to 15 years, which they may appeal...
...effective. Suspects are encouraged to talk by a rifle fired 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...
...difference between the Japanese and the Russians. Under the Russians no one dared ask whether a missing person had, in fact, been arrested. The people of Pyongyang found themselves repeating over & over a phrase familiar to all Germans a decade before. In Korean the phrase is hang bong pul myung-address unknown...