Word: yun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ruthless campaign, Park recently seized Yun Po Sun, 76, South Korea's President for nearly two years after the overthrow of Syngman Rhee in 1960. The charge against Yun was that he had contributed $1,000 to antigovernment student demonstrators. "The money was intended to revive democracy in Korea," admitted Yun, who refused to recant. If convicted, he could receive the death penalty...
Barbed Poetry. Whatever Yun's fate, at least 91 people have already been found guilty of subversion, and more than 100 others are awaiting trial. Among those most recently convicted on charges of plotting to overthrow the government, 14 were condemned to death, 15 to life imprisonment and 26 to at least 15 years...
...dangles the village perilously close to Cambodian supply routes favored by the Viet Cong, and the blades of arriving American helicopters threaten to snip Buon Yun from its mooring. A detachment of twelve U.S. soldiers settles in to protect the village from...
...equally eager to guard Buon Yun from the Americans' embrace. Both are strangers to the Montagnards, but characteristically the villagers even have an ancient legend to describe this fearsome confluence of alien protectors: the story of the barking deer, coveted both by Kra the tiger and Bru the eagle. As they fight over who will give the deer the warmer home, their claws and talons turn the prize into "a red splotch on the ground...
Author Rubin, who worked with Montagnards as a Special Forces sergeant from 1962 to 1964, uses this simple parable to stunning effect. Through it, the catastrophe that falls upon Buon Yun assumes the inevitable rhythm of high drama. Like the eagle and the tiger, the Americans and Viet Cong tell themselves-and for the most part are convinced-that all they are trying to do is protect the village. The few who sense disaster waiting behind a tangle of motives are powerless to reverse the story line of the Montagnard legend...