Word: syngman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...house canvasses. So blatant were some of the tactics that Park was forced to sack two Cabinet members to still the opposition outcry. At the same time, to build up his regime's democratic image, Park ordered an amnesty for political prisoners, publicly permitted exiled former President Syngman Rhee, 88, to return to his native land (ailing in Hawaii, Rhee declined). From Washington, where he had gone for President Kennedy's funeral, Park sent back pictures of himself and President Johnson, had them reproduced and plastered all over South Korea...
Died. General John Reed Hodge, 70, World War II Pacific combat commander, chief of occupation forces in South Korea (1945-48), a veteran of Guadalcanal, Leyte and Okinawa who found himself trying to organize a democracy in chaotic Korea, where he was instrumental in the rise of Syngman Rhee to the presidency, but then grew disenchanted with Rhee's autocratic ways, whereupon Rhee complained of his meddling in local affairs, and three months later he was recalled; of cancer; in Washington...
...student rioters overturned and burned cars and fought pitched battles with the police, General Ne Win could reflect that similar demonstrations had signaled trouble for other strongmen: Syngman Rhee in South Korea, Adnan Menderes in Turkey. Ne Win gave his army a free hand, and the troops opened fire, killing 16 students and wounding 42. A government spokesman explained that it had been necessary to dynamite the Student Union because "it was a haven for underground leaders, plotting the overthrow of the government," and Ne Win, in a nationwide broadcast, broadly hinted that the student leaders were Communists...
What the hanged men had in common was that they had all supported deposed President Syngman Rhee. Otherwise, their alleged crimes hardly seemed to merit the death penalty: former Home Minister Choi In Kyu was accused of fraud; Rhee's ex-bodyguard Kwak Yung Joo and Gangster Lim Wha Soo, of corruption; Socialist Choi Back Keum, of "antistate activities," and Publisher Cho Yong Soo was charged with "sympathizing" with the views of Communist North Korea...
Citing such examples as Chiang Kai-Shek in China, Ngo Dinh Diem in South Viet Nam, and Syngman Rhee in South Korea, Lattimore claimed that the U.S. could not possibly be successful in forcing a country to accept a form of government its people no longer wanted...