Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is his 25th since he came to TIME in 1950. Nor is English his only language. He studied French and Japanese at Yale, achieved a facility in Japanese during World War II as a U.S. Army intelligence officer in the Pacific. Called back into the Army in the Korean war, he soon acquired a reading knowledge of Chinese. Later, as a correspondent in TIME'S Rome bureau, he picked up Italian...
President Eisenhower's view of what he wanted most to be remembered for in office changed subtly in his 7½ years as President. He ended the Korean war; he prided himself in taking some of the acrimony of partisanship out of the U.S.atmosphere; and fiscal economy was always in his mind. But increasingly, Ike envisioned himself as engaged in one overriding personal mission, to bring a "just and lasting peace." He ran for reelection, he told friends, because "I want to advance our chances for world peace, if only by a little, maybe only a few feet...
Nine years ago, at the height of the Korean war, the local South Korean army commander Colonel Kim Chong Won suspected Shinwon of secretly supplying Communist guerrillas. He rounded up 600 villagers in the schoolhouse. screened out friends and relations of his soldiers, then shot the rest-men, women and children. The victims were buried in a mass unmarked grave...
...trumped-up charges. When the Assembly persisted and dispatched an investigating committee to Shinwon, the legislators were ambushed en route and forced to flee for their lives. Posing as an expert, Colonel Kim blandly identified the ambushers as "Red guerrillas." For the sake of its own good name, the Korean army in December 1951 court-martialed Colonel Kim. At his trial, the "guerrillas" who intercepted the legislators were proved actually to have been Kim's men in disguise. The government reluctantly admitted that 187 civilians had been slaughtered. But from his jail cell Assemblyman Suh sent word that more...
...giving the Army more money to buy the new weapons. With most of the Defense Department's procurement money going into bombers, long-range missiles, air-defense systems and nuclear submarines over the past decade, U.S. infantry hardware has remained largely unchanged since the Korean war. Alone among major powers, the U.S. still equips troops with a World War II rifle, the M1; only lately have infantry units begun to get a trickle of new M-14 rifles with the standard NATO 7.62-mm. caliber. Last week the House added an extra $208 million for new Army equipment...