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...belief in the almightiness of demonstrations." Nevertheless, at week's end, Park's police arrested 53 university students and three prominent retired generals, all former members of Park's 1961-1963 junta. In cracking down, Park was well aware that the regime of ex-President Syngman Rhee was overthrown by demonstrations in 1960. As truckloads of soldiers patrolled the streets to crush further uprisings, it was evident that Park intended to avoid a similar fate...
With the coming of peace, Rhee struggled to rebuild his devastated little country. The task was doubly difficult because, historically, South Korea had been the agricultural part of an underdeveloped country, with what heavy industry there was located in the North...
...problem only economic, for by this time Rhee was getting into his 80s. Tragically, at the very time he could have been most useful to his country, he had become too old and inflexible to serve it well. Fading fast were the lofty visions of democracy for which he had gone to jail so long ago. Now his high-handed ways were earning him bitter enemies among the most enlightened groups in the country. Charges of corruption flew thick and fast around his Cabinet. In 1960 he was re-elected to a fourth term, but in a flurry of rigged...
...seaside cottage on Oahu, then, after a severe stroke in 1962, in a Honolulu hospital. There he died last week at the age of 90. His body was flown back to Seoul on board a special U.S. Air Force transport. Wary of possible repercussions among groups still bitter at Rhee's memory, President Chung Hee Park prepared Korea's second highest honor, a "people's funeral," instead of the full-scale state funeral that might have been accorded to a former President...
...people of Seoul did not share Park's restraint. Fully 300,000 of them lined the streets to dab at their eyes or simply gaze in respect as the flower-bedecked hearse carried Rhee on his last trip to Pear Blossom House, his old residence...