Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...streets of Seoul 20,000 South Koreans gave a new and heartfelt twist to an old Communist slogan. As they watched veterans of the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division embark for home, they shouted the rising chant: "Yankee, don't go home!" For the G.I.s, the occasion was a happy one, but disturbed South Koreans hung out banners proclaiming that "withdrawal of U.S. forces invites destruction...
Crackers & Canals. At the thatched village of Tangan Ri, near Seoul, last week, as onlooking Koreans cried "Mansell" (ten thousand years), the first shovelful of earth was turned to launch Bechtel's big project. In two years Bechtel will build three thermoelectric plants in Korea, thus almost double the nation's power capacity to 200,000 kw. Cost: $34 million, the largest FOA contract yet issued in Korea...
...customary wreaths at the tombs of George Washington and the Unknown Soldier, Rhee signaled to a State Department aide who trotted behind him carrying a shopping bag. At each stop the aide solemnly opened the shopping bag and removed a red maple sapling from the old palace garden in Seoul, and Rhee solemnly planted it. At Mount Vernon Syngman Rhee paused to acknowledge the cheers of a crowd of tourists, and a small girl begged him to stand still so her mother could snap a picture. "Take her picture with me," said Rhee, drawing the child close...
...Revenge. At Army bases, hundreds pressed against the barbed-wire fences, waving MPCs and begging soldiers to sell them anything from bedsheets to underwear. Outside of Seoul's white-bricked PX, runny-nosed Korean shoeshine boys wailed far into the night: "Hey, G.I., no momma, no poppa, you catch my G.I. money okay? Don't be a sonavabitch...
...Leader Shinicky reported that because of police intimidation, he has not yet worked up sufficient nerve even to visit Kwangju-the little town 15 miles east of Seoul where he is standing for reelection...