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Gunfire rattled again last week through remote cities with names once painfully familiar to U.S. G.I.s - Pusan, Kwangju, Taegu, Taejon, Seoul. Once again, as he had in 1950, South Korea's stubborn, prideful President Syngman Rhee, 85, stood with his back to the wall. But this time Rhee's opponents were not Commu nist invaders. They were South Korea's own eager, patriotic youngsters...
...curfew, Song and his men rapidly reimposed order without once shooting to kill. But by the time the last rifle shots died away. 108 students were dead, and Seoul's hospitals were jammed with more than 700 wounded. From Pusan, Kwangju, Taegu and Taejon came news of other riots in which at least 22 more people had died...
Abundantly Satisfied. The Rev. Reuben Torrey now lives in Taejon near a model farm operated by the Methodists, Presbyterians, United Church of Canada, and Salvation Army, which devotes part of its area to showing amputees how they can lead active, useful lives. In South Korea there are now four prosthetic stations; Torrey and his fellow missionaries have fitted more than 800 artificial limbs and treated nearly 1,000 amputees. There is little likelihood that the work will diminish: land mines, unexploded shells, unguarded railway crossings, and the dearth of safety devices on machinery will bring thousands more to the clinic...
Inside the Taejon clinic one morning last week the homemade kerosene stove was a center of warmth and hope for a little huddJe of maimed men. One sat with his stump tucked under him, an armless boy held his Bible in two hooks. Torrey slipped an elastic from around his Bible, parked it on his arm-hook, and then began reading the 36th Psalm...
...Unfair." From Taejon to Taegu and the farmlands beyond, Koreans turned out to cheer the "AntiCommunist Patriotic Youth" as their trains rumbled south through the night. But the P.W.s were somewhat disillusioned by their welcome at South Korean Army reception depots. Army officers told them they could join up (with no advance pay, no bonus, no leave), or they could return to civilian status and-if they were still in their 20s the draft. One young P.W. lieutenant was bitter. "I want to go to school," he said. "I've been in the Army eight years, almost four...