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...bitterness between the two nations. For 35 years Korea was a Japanese colony, and its people either were ruthlessly suppressed as rebels or treated with contempt as second-class citizens. On gaining its independence after the war, Korea adopted a hard-nosed 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...
Sold-Out Country? At week's end the conferees were reported in full accord on 1) a new fisheries treaty that will redraw the old Rhee line, 2) a trade agreement under which Japan will postpone repayment of South Korea's $45 million trade debt and increase imports of Korean raw materials, 3) a redefinition of the rights of the half-million Koreans living in Japan, and 4) reparations, which will probably come to $300 million in grants and $200 million in long-term credits...
...scene reminiscent of the last days of Syngman Rhee, some 12,000 placard-carrying students, cheered on by thousands of adults, marched in drizzling rain down Seoul's Capitol Avenue one day last week, crying "Drive Park out!" and "People are hungry! Let us eat profiteering millionaires!" Outnumbered police opened up with tear gas; the rioters replied with rock barrages, broke through police lines and drove off nine army trucks 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...
...house canvasses. So blatant were some of the tactics that Park was forced to sack two Cabinet members to still the opposition outcry. At the same time, to build up his regime's democratic image, Park ordered an amnesty for political prisoners, publicly permitted exiled former President Syngman Rhee, 88, to return to his native land (ailing in Hawaii, Rhee declined). From Washington, where he had gone for President Kennedy's funeral, Park sent back pictures of himself and President Johnson, had them reproduced and plastered all over South Korea...
Died. General John Reed Hodge, 70, World War II Pacific combat commander, chief of occupation forces in South Korea (1945-48), a veteran of Guadalcanal, Leyte and Okinawa who found himself trying to organize a democracy in chaotic Korea, where he was instrumental in the rise of Syngman Rhee to the presidency, but then grew disenchanted with Rhee's autocratic ways, whereupon Rhee complained of his meddling in local affairs, and three months later he was recalled; of cancer; in Washington...