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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year ago. baby-faced Lieut. General Chang Do Yung was the swaggering front man of South Korea's tough new military junta, which had just seized power. Less than two months later, his fellow revolutionary, General Park Chung Hee placed him under house arrest, then clapped him into Seoul's red brick Sodaemun prison. The charges: during the early hours of the takeover. Chang had harbored subversive doubts, had mildly tried to stop the coup. For this, Chang was sentenced to hang, but the penalty was later commuted to life imprisonment...
Last week, looking wan and carrying a small bundle of personal belongings, Chang, 39. was freed. Humbly he told reporters: "I am sorry for causing all this trouble." With his wife, he took a taxi to a cousin's home (his own luxurious villa had long been rented), then knelt in prayer with his family and a Korean Presbyterian minister...
This situation seems to be chang-William E. Welmers, professor African Languages at U.C.L.A., has to staunch defender of the language programs since their Inauguration at 1958. Explaining U.C.L.A.'s approach concerning African in a letter to the CRIMSON, "The usual attitude has we can't teach them all, so teach any. My attitude ... we can't teach them all, so we" prepared to teach ANY, as arises...
...Whether Chang hangs is up to South Korea's tough ruler. General Park, who reviews all final verdicts of capital punishment. So far, 16 men have been sentenced to death on charges of opposing last year's revolution; seven of them have gone to the scaffold in Seoul's bleak So-daemun prison...
...Premier John Chang was kept under house arrest for six months after the coup and released last November, just before General Park's visit to Washington...