Word: changing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...single, sudden impulse of youth, South Korea's high school and university students had appointed themselves the guardians of democracy. Their elders had stood by helplessly last March, when Rhee's musclemen flagrantly rigged the vice-presidential election to count out Vice President John M. Chang and "elect" Rhee's chosen heir, ailing Lee Ki Poong. But the students were less docile. Fortnight ago, their anger flared into rioting at the port city of Masan (TIME, April 25). In other cities, other students marched in demonstrations. One warm spring morning last week, it was Seoul...
...Korea itself, Rhee was faced with a nationwide wave of revulsion. Opposition Leader John Chang issued a list of ten demands on Rhee, including the immediate release of all arrested students and nullification of the March 15 elections. When Defense Minister Kim Chung Yul, speaking in the National Assembly, tried to justify the Seoul shootings by accusing the students of ''indescribable violence,'' he was torn bodily away from the microphone by raging members of Chang's Democratic Party...
...wire around the palace to deliver another reminder of U.S. concern. At Inchon, 25,000 people turned out to demonstrate-with no violence from the chastened police-for new elections. Late in the week, despite the fact that his term still had four months to run. Lame Duck John Chang resigned as Vice President with the avowed intention of encouraging both Rhee and Lee Ki Poong to follow his example...
...Poong. who had nervously announced that he was "considering" resigning, now declared that, though he planned to retire eventually, "many" of his colleagues had begged him to stay on for a while. Lee's strong card seemed to be that if he resigned, as well as Chang, the government would be legally obliged to hold new vice-presidential elections-a loss of face Rhee was not yet ready to accept...
...they would be tied in bags and thrown into the sea." Last week, despite a "national security" law which provides penalties of up to ten years in jail for anyone who attacks Rhee, opposition members of the National Assembly denounced him in unprecedented, personal terms. Said former Prime Minister Chang Taik Sang: "Rhee should be told from this house to either retire gracefully or else to apologize to the people, saying 'Please spare...