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...first time since South Korea be came a nation, Korean voters found no carbine-toting cops or hulking youth corpsmen around to "supervise" the vote. Of 1,532 candidates, only 50 dared openly to campaign as members of the onetime dominant Liberal Party of ex-President Syngman Rhee. But even this failed to appease the students still intoxicated with the sense of their own power, who seemed to think that mob rule was a good swap for Rhee repression. At Samchonpo, Yun-yang and Kumchon, student rowdies burned 44 ballot boxes. Explained one young student, stopped...
...Vote. On their side, the old Rhee supporters showed that they had yet to unlearn their old tricks. One wealthy ex-Liberal, running scared as an Independent, "loaned" teams of oxen to the farmers of his district, explaining: "If I am elected, you may keep them. But if I am defeated, I must take them back to pay off my creditors." Other candidates freely bought votes by folding money in campaign literature, and when the money dried up, by opening barrels of makkolli, one of the headiest of the home-brewed Korean rice wines...
...results proved a moderately encouraging victory for moderation. Of the 233 House of Representatives seats at issue, well over a two-thirds majority were won by the Democratic Party of former Vice President John M. Chang, whose defeat in a crooked election last March triggered the overthrow of Rhee. The Democrats also made heavy inroads in the Pusan factory districts, where the Socialists, running on a "recognize Red China" program, had high hopes...
...junior officers, who are still forcing senior officers to resign, and to give government clerks a 60% raise to discourage the taking of graft. Problem is where to find the money. Chang's men claim they could get it painlessly by confiscating the ill-gotten gains of Rhee's ministers. Privately, they admit such confiscations would be only a drop in the bucket. They would like to have the U.S. foot the bill, but the U.S. is more likely to reduce its aid than to increase it. Only alternative, claim Chang's strategists, is an inevitably painful...
...private citizens, remembering that students recently beat one defiant pro-Rhee villager to death, were worried about the trend. Said one: "The repressive influence formerly wielded by police is now exercised by the students...