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...finally went too far. and the Rhee government had to "retire" him. He had begun arresting as "Communist instigators" any anti-Rhee Assemblymen observed calling at the U.S. embassy...
...stuff in the pockets of dead student rioters. To show its loyalty to the new order, the Bank of Korea announced that Syngman Rhee's face would be removed from bank notes. One group of students filed formal charges against Rhee (and 161 former Cabinet ministers and Assemblymen) for "criminal irresponsibility" in rigging the constitution to keep himself in office. Alarmed, Acting President Huh Chung urged a slowdown in the purging, only to be accused by the press of "preserving a corrupt bureaucracy...
...complete was the students' domination that when the National Assembly finally met in emergency session, Assembly guards were under orders to admit "only students and Assemblymen." Only 105 of Korea's 231 Assemblymen dared to show up. Under the stern eyes of hundreds of youngsters, they unanimously passed a resolution calling for new elections, a new constitution and Rhee's "immediate" resignation...
...seven children, six are U.S. -educated, two are studying for the priesthood. Once Rhee's Prime Minister and trusted lieutenant, Chang rebelled in 1950 when Rhee proposed to alter the constitution to make himself independent of the Assembly; when Rhee's police threatened to ar rest defiant Assemblymen, Chang pru dently took refuge in the American hospital in Pusan...
...Connecticut and New Jersey but pay higher New York income taxes than residents, and 3) encourage, by tax deductions, voluntary construction of atomic fallout shelters in homes and commercial buildings. Originally advanced on a mandatory basis, Rockefeller's deadly earnest shelter plan was viewed as political poison by assemblymen, who sent it back to committee amid hoots of laughter that might some day have a hollow ring...