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...NOTHING (217 pp.)-James Han-ley-Horizon...
...road gangs, and ten ringleaders went on trial for their lives. Last week, in Seoul's Sodaemun prison, the death sentence against a smuggler was carried out for the first time: the hangman's noose was lowered over South Korea's most wanted criminal, surly, burly Han Pil Kook...
Eleven years ago, Han, then 26, was just a disgruntled employee in a government department store in Pyongyang, capital of Red North Korea. He fled south with retreating United Nations troops, found himself in the teeming southern Korean coastal city of Pusan. Like thousands of other jobless refugees, Han opened a tiny store specializing in black-market supplies filched from U.S. military ware houses and PX stores, luxury goods smuggled from Japan. Soon Han muscled his way to the top of the pack, sported a smashed nose and livid knife scars as testimony to his ruthlessness. Not satisfied with being...
When General Park's reformers began to get tough, Han fled into the interior. For months he moved from village to village before government agents finally nabbed him. Han's nine colleagues in contraband, still behind bars, will probably also get the death penalty. Promised General Park last week: "We will send all smugglers to the gallows...
...Cornell 8 to 1, and the year before the score was 9 to 0--Friday's match does not promise to break the pattern. Cornell has lost Pete Moeller, the number one man who reached the quarter-finals of the intercollegiate tournament last winter, and is now using senior Han Steinglass in the top position...