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Over a period of nearly five years, ever-increasing numbers (latest count: 952) of Japanese fishermen have languished in South Korean President Syngman Rhee's jails across the Tsushima Strait, pawns in a diplomatic stalemate created entirely by Rhee's longstanding hatred of Japan. "Korea has only three enemies." cried Rhee recently: "Japan, Russia and China...
South Korea. At 82, Syngman Rhee still holds the country under his thumb. Last year the country picked its Vice President from the opposition, suggesting progress toward a two-party system. But after two attempts on his life, Vice President John M. Chang has stayed at home under heavy personal guard, consulting with his party's members behind barricaded walls. Though the North Korean Communists have kept building up their military strength, the South has been making something of an economic comeback with the help of about $300 million yearly in U.S. aid, but there is danger that...
Until this year, except for U.S. political and military brass, only South Korea's Syngman Rhee among foreign leaders had visited Formosa to call on Chiang. But in June. Japan's Premier Nobusuke Kishi, ignoring wails from his political opponents, included Formosa in his tour of Southwest Asia, talked with Chiang, and on his return to Tokyo announced that Japan had no plans to recognize Peking "in the foreseeable future." Scheduled to visit Chiang this fall: Iraq's Crown Prince Abdul Illah and Turkish Premier Adnan Menderes...
...commanders were worried that the balance of military power in Korea was against them. Old Syngman Rhee bluntly demanded atomic weapons. This week, as the result of the Panmunjom meeting, a force of F-100 jet fighters capable of delivering tactical atomic bombs will begin to move into Korea. They will be followed by a shipment of up-to-date infantry weapons, but for the time being the U.N. Command will not get atomic rockets or guided missiles...
Last week Rhee's Education Ministry implemented his appeal, slapped a censorship ban on all "movies showing mistreatment of American Indians and reflecting colonialist thinking...