Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Pusey leaves this morning for the Korean capital city of Seoul, the first stop on his nine-week visit to universities of the free nations of Asia...
...trained soldier-boss, Field Marshal Mohammed Ayub Khan, who shares the same jaundiced view of democracy available too soon in a largely illiterate nation. For weeks, Pak and his fellow junta leaders, all soldiers, studied Ayub's techniques and pondered the advice of the new U.S. ambassador in Seoul, Samuel Berger. Berger's practical counsel: Hang on to power if you will, but give the people some timetable for a return of democracy. Pak has done just that. Last week he announced that the reins of government will indeed be handed back to South Korea's civilians...
From the back of the crowded, floodlit assembly room in Seoul's government headquarters came the question that was on everybody's mind. "Are you aware, General Pak," a Korean reporter ventured hesitatingly, "that the newspapers are afraid to criticize you?" Major General Pak Chung Hi, the flinty, gimlet-eyed boss of the junta that seized power in May, snapped back impatiently: "This is the first time I have heard of it. If this allegation is true, it is because you journalists are chicken-hearted...
...Into Seoul last week bounced retired U.S. General James A. Van Fleet, 69, breaking diplomatic china with every step. Van Fleet, who was U.N. commander during the heaviest fighting of the Korean war, is a bit of a hero to every South Korean, and often called "the father of the ROK army." Invited to Korea by the junta, Van Fleet briskly put his seal of approval on the generals' coup d'etat against democratically elected Premier John Chang. "The finest thing that has happened to Korea in a thousand years," declared Van Fleet...
...need of a more aggressive leader who will be able to carry out stronger policies." In fact, his retirement had been hastened by a truckload of Pak's troops, who swooped onto General Chang's home in the predawn hours and hustled the startled victim off to Seoul's capitol building. Getting the point, General Chang called an emergency cabinet meeting and made his announcement. Then, with three other members of the junta, the hapless general vanished from sight, presumably to take up residence in sprawling Mapo prison...