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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...with him, clubbed him and tossed him down a flight of stairs. Rhee then jailed him. In the 1956 elections, Chough backed Rhee's opposition. Presidential Candidate Patrick Henry Shinicky died of a cerebral hemorrhage ten days before the election, but the vice presidential candidate, John M. Chang, won the vice presidency, to Rhee's disgust. Vice President Chang was subsequently shot by unidentified thugs, then placed under "protective" house arrest. Chough was again severely beaten up, this time in Taegu...
Nominated last November for President, with John M. Chang as his running mate, Chough proclaimed in his harsh, high, cracked voice: "Korea is fed up with one-man rule. I hope to campaign vigorously." But Chough was already a sick man. Last month he flew to Washington for an operation to determine whether he had abdominal cancer. Thereupon Rhee's Liberals advanced the election day two months, to March 15; it is now too late for anyone to enter against Rhee. Rhee's comment on hearing of Chough's death: "John Chang should be delighted that...