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...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...
Extolling the general. House Speaker John McCormack, read off a list of his great battles that reverberated like an army drum roll: "The Marne, Meuse-Argonne, St.-Mihiel and Sedan; Bataan, Corregidor, New Guinea, Leyte, Lingayen Gulf, Manila and Borneo, Pusan and Inchon." Then McCormack presented Mac-Arthur with an engrossed copy of a special resolution, passed unanimously by both Houses of Congress, that expressed the "thanks and appreciation of the Congress and the American people" for his leadership "during and following World War II," and for his many years of effort to strengthen the ties between the Philippines...
...From Pusan in the south to Panmunjom on the war-famed 38th parallel, fireworks lit up the sky and brass bands blared in the plazas of South Korea. It was the first anniversary of General Park Chung Hee's successful army coup, and it marked his junta's success in honoring the pledge it made when it seized power -to give South Korea "a new life...
Eleven years ago, Han, then 26, was just a disgruntled employee in a government department store in Pyongyang, capital of Red North Korea. He fled south with retreating United Nations troops, found himself in the teeming southern Korean coastal city of Pusan. Like thousands of other jobless refugees, Han opened a tiny store specializing in black-market supplies filched from U.S. military ware houses and PX stores, luxury goods smuggled from Japan. Soon Han muscled his way to the top of the pack, sported a smashed nose and livid knife scars as testimony to his ruthlessness. Not satisfied with being...
...goods, while women shrieked: "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...