Word: pusan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policy toward Japan. South Korean President Syngman Rhee banned Japanese fishing boats within 60 miles of the Korean coastline. Over the years the Koreans seized a total of 326 Japanese trawlers, and still hold 182 of them. Nearly 4,000 Japanese fishermen were herded into a detention camp near Pusan to serve terms ranging from a few weeks to a few months. Rhee also demanded $8 billion in reparations to cover the alleged expropriation of gold bullion and art objects, and the forced labor imposed on Koreans during the occupation...
...voices. To call for negotiations now, said Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd, would be like urging that "Churchill enter into negotiations with the Germans at the time of Dunkirk or that President Truman enter into negotiations with the Communists when we stood with our backs to the sea in the Pusan perimeter." Said Wyoming Democrat Gale McGee: "This is no time for another Munich. If Red China is prepared to expand its sphere of influence and territory in Southeast Asia, we might as well find out now, before it's too late...
...with the 57th Infantry (Philippine Scouts) when the Japanese invaded the islands in 1941. He was captured, endured the infamous Bataan death march, survived three years in Japanese prison camps. In Korea in 1950, he took command of a combat infantry battalion, fought through the bloody defense of the Pusan perimeter and later was named a regimental commander. Back in the U.S., Johnson became commandant of the Army's elite Command and General Staff College. There he coined a slogan, "Challenge the Assertion"-an attitude that has since won him the admiration of Bob Mc Namara, whose hobby...
...being used as barricades. The screaming, cursing clashes lasted all day and into the night, left scores of injured littering the wet pavement. Clamping on martial law in the capital, President Park ordered in thousands of army troops. The following day new riots erupted in twelve other cities; in Pusan, students fought the police for hours; in Kwangju, 165 miles south of the capital, 6,000 students sacked the provincial headquarters...
...batch of ballots in one strongly anti-Park district of Seoul, but such "invalidations" were at a record low. "Power failures" are another standard practice in South Korea on election nights, to facilitate tampering with ballot boxes. But this time the lights went out briefly in only one city, Pusan, and not only was it a bona fide short circuit, but the Central Election Management Committee had foresightedly ordered all polls, Pusan's included, to lay in a supply of candles. Moreover, to prevent the almost customary burning of wooden ballot boxes, Park's regime installed metal boxes...