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...politicians live in luxury-foreign cigarettes will burn the fatherland!"), seizing Japanese records from tearooms ("Japanese swords are hidden in these melodies!"), and dragging civil servants out of cars bearing blue, official plates ("Why are you using official transport after office hours? Who do you think you are-Syngman Rhee or somebody?"). The puritanical demonstrators lit big bonfires of cigarettes and records and then swept through Seoul's biggest kisang (geisha) house, the White Cloud, to drive male customers and indignant, silk-gowned "hostesses" into the street. "Only rotten people visit kisang houses!" the students cried...
Moments later, Dave Guard, 25, and also from Hawaii, turned to the audience and-apropos of nothing-announced in a singsong Oriental accent: "You see, I was educated in your country-Washington and Rhee...
...Acting President did not want to put undue pressure on Seoul's harassed, discredited 'legislature. But, suggested Huh Chung, there would be "no more arrests of Assemblymen" if they would just go ahead and approve the new constitution. Syngman Rhee's old enemies, the Democrats, darkly passed the word that anyone who opposed the constitutional amendment, with its tighter safeguards for liberty and individual rights, would be considered an "antirevolutionary." All but three of Rhee's Liberals got the point, and finally, by 208 to 3, the National Assembly approved the new law. "Now the second...
...like to see some vacancies at the top-where, as some of them candidly admit, the opportunities for graft are better. Posturing heroically on street corners, they charge the generals with everything from taking bribes from draft evaders to delivering the vote of entire ROK army divisions to the Rhee ticket in last March's fraudulent elections. Counters U.S. General Carter B. Magruder, who as U.N. commander is responsible for South Korea's defenses against the Communist North: "No military force can tolerate having senior officers forced out of service by junior officers without completely losing its effectiveness...
Modest Aim. Rhee's old civilian hierarchy had it tougher. Eight of Rhee's eleven Cabinet ministers were indicted last week on charges of election fraud, and also in jail or under questioning were a Supreme Court judge, two former police directors, two bank governors, three provincial governors, an ex-mayor of Seoul and 21 other high-ranking officials of Rhee's Liberal Party. Former Defense Minister Shin Sung Mo, accused of involvement in political assassinations, fell dead of a stroke in the midst of his interrogation. In the National Assembly, 104 out of 138 Liberal members...