Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trillin came to TIME by way of Yale, where he was chairman of the Yale Daily News and magna cum laude in English in 1957. Among his early assignments were short stints in our London and Paris bureaus, where his most memorable assignment was the 1958 Algerian generals' revolt, during which a rifle-bearing Arab shot at him. He now regards that experience as casual...
...well as all U.S. troops. U.S. embassy boss was Marshall Green, experienced, red-haired charge d'affaires in Seoul. Almost as soon as the sound of the junta's guns rattled Seoul's windows, both were out of bed and drafting public statements condemning the revolt and backing the government of Premier Chang. Neither waited to consult Washington. General Magruder urged that Korean armed forces chiefs "use their authority and influence to see that control is immediately turned back to the lawful governmental authorities.'' Added Diplomat Green: "I wish to make it emphatically clear that...
...that General Magruder would not use the two American divisions under his command to contest the coup. When Magruder and Green arrived in midmorning to argue with General Chang and his four fellow junta chiefs, the Korean generals brushed off the Americans with a flat refusal to end the revolt...
...Chang, told him that if he did not come to lead the coup, "we will have to kill you." Even as the uprising got under way, General Chang rushed off to see Magruder; for most of the first day, it was not certain whether Chang would lead the revolt or quell...
Major General Pak was once an avowed Communist who helped organize an army revolt in 1948; he was sentenced to death by Syngman Rhee's officers but was released after reportedly undergoing a conversion and informing on the entire Communist network. Now vocally and violently antiCommunist, he rose to be the army's chief of operations. Disgusted with the corruption of Rhee's regime, General Pak is said to have planned a revolt early last year, but the student mobs that ousted Rhee beat...