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...presidential elections of 1971 and has since been subject to almost continual government harassment-including a kidnaping in broad daylight from a Tokyo hotel by KCIA agents in 1973. Along with Kim, some 15 Christian clergymen were brought in to KCIA headquarters for interrogation, including Kim Kwan Suk, 57, the secretary general of the National Council of Churches in Korea. Also arrested were former Foreign Minister Chyung Yil Hyung, 72, and his wife. Kim Kwan Suk and several other dissidents (including seven women) were later released, but Kim Dae Jung and ten others are still in custody...
...jagged chunks of volcanic lava that wear out shoes in two weeks. The lake's strand is an equatorial desert (average temperature: 105 degrees) blasted by winds of hurricane force. Its inlets are infested with crocodiles and surrounded by lions, vipers and cobras. Its inhabitants, the Turkana and Suk tribesmen, are dying off. Not surprisingly, only a few white men have ever explored the lake. One of them is Actor William Holden, who was camping there last week...
Better Luck Next Time. In Hong Kong, while walking down a hall to his apartment, Law Kun-suk tore a pair of panties from an overhead line because it is supposed to be bad luck to walk under them, was clouted over the head by the irate owner, next day received a six-week jail sentence for property destruction...
...enemies will crush me to earth, and my family will find themselves living on rice crumbs and water." His younger son, Lee Kong Wook, 18, urged that the men of the family meet their enemies in the streets and die fighting. To his elder son, Army Lieut. Lee Kang Suk, 23, who had become Rhee's adopted heir three years before, Lee talked in classic Oriental fashion of the shame of "being looked down on by people." Suk savagely reminded him: "I told you that if you and your gang won the elections, the country would be ruined...
...resignation, Syngman Rhee himself came to the Lees' room for a private chat with his old friend. When it was over, Lee sent away all but one of his bodyguards. Lee Kang Suk told the guard: "Be around when I do what has to be done, and in case of need, finish me." At 5:40 the next morning, the guard heard shots from Lee's room. When police broke in, they found Lee, his wife and younger son sitting hand in hand on a couch, their heads thrown back by the shock of death. Lying across their...