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...move had been expected since parliamentary elections two months ago, but the speed--and the numbers involved--caught the country by surprise. In 48 hours last week, South Korea's largest opposition group, the New Korea Democratic Party, was strengthened by the entry of more than 30 Deputieselect from other opposition factions. The defections, mainly from the Democratic Korea Party, gave the N.K.D.P. 102 seats in the 276-member National Assembly, more than the one-third required to exercise real political power...
...prepared for trouble. Picked squads of sharpshooters kept vigilance atop the brownstone building of the Chamber of Deputies. Others watched from adjoining housetops and armed peons guarded streets or careened through the city in trucks, shouting "Viva Avila Camacho!" Pistoleros prowled the Chamber and Senate corridors, and many Camachista Deputieselect appeared unshaven and disheveled for the meeting, having slept in the Chamber Building to avoid being sniped or kidnapped...