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...young hoodlums stormed the friend's home, demanding to see Chough. Four broke into Chough's bedroom, found him in his silk underwear, beat him unconscious with fists and clubs. With cuts on his head, arm and right ear, Chough was whisked off to a hospital at Suwon...
...later, a better thing happened. The World Council of Churches offered Pang a year's scholarship in the U.S. He headed for his brother's home near Suwon to tell him the wonderful news. The brother was away, and Pang settled down to wait. There, on the night of last Dec. 5, violence caught up with Pang again. As the story was pieced together later by Army investigators, a white U.S. Army lieutenant and three Negro G.I.s burst into the freezing mud-and-stick hut where Pang, his sister-in-law and her two children lay huddled...
Peace, if it comes, will find Korea's cities dead. In Seoul the gutted, white-domed capitol of the Republic of Korea stands like a skeleton among the city's ruins. Suwon's huge, half-destroyed gate, once a monument to Korea's kings, guards only rubble now. Fifty cities and towns in South Korea have been destroyed...
Last week a letter from a brother officer told of Hero Sutton's death near Suwon on Feb. 3. A sniper shot him in the head when he was setting up a forward defense post...
...preceding week a battalion of crack Greek troops, all veterans of guerrilla fighting in their own country, finally got a firsthand look at Asiatic warfare. The Greeks, who went into battle singing, were not impressed. Northeast of Suwon 200 of them stood off a 45-minute attack by 3,000 Chinese Communists. Snapped Sergeant Basilakis Nikolous, who was slightly wounded, "They came at us like wild beasts, and we just cut them down as they came...