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...Departures. In his first 24 hours in office, Huh commanded less public attention in Korea than the final, tragic act of Rhee's fall from power. Early in the week, fearful of the mob fury that kept their Seoul home under constant siege, Lee Ki Poong and his family had taken refuge in the heavily guarded presidential compound. There, crammed into a single room with his wife and two sons, Lee sought vainly for a way of escaping the net that was closing in on him. To a close friend Lee confided: "Rhee has ordered me to resign...
...site, obviously intending to remove the cross. Rushing into the street, the women chanted hymns and waved placards demanding "Freedom of Religion.'' Late in the afternoon they were joined by their husbands, coming off the day shift. By the time the police arrived, a threatening mob of some 3,000 had sealed off the block. The cops used tear gas. The throng replied with bricks and stones, and raced to the town hall, setting it afire...
...that, the whole mass charged forward-and ran into a hail of bullets that left several dead and dying. At this point, Seoul's 30,000 demonstrating students became partly an improvised army seeking weapons and partly a mob bent on destruction. While commandeered Jeeps and vans carried the wounded off to city hospitals, regiments of students, most of them still unbelievably clinging to their satchels full of books, continued to advance on the palace. By now, the building of the pro-government newspaper, Seoul Shinmun, was burning, and so was the headquarters of Rhee's bullyboy Anti...
...made it necessary for him to carry the latest collection there himself. When he was visiting the Temple in Jerusalem, some Jews from Ephesus recognized Paul, whom they considered Judaism's arch-subversive, and at once raised an outcry that Paul had desecrated the holy place. A frenzied mob surged around him and might well have killed him, for the penalty for desecrating the Temple was death. But the Roman authorities, anxious to prevent any disturbance in this tinderbox of a colony, sent him off with an impressive armed escort (200 infantrymen, 200 spearmen and 70 cavalrymen...
Most notable beneficiary was Fadhil Jamali, one of the free world's strongest friends in the Middle East, who, as Foreign Minister and U.N. delegate, long represented and spoke for the late great and hated Nuri asSaid. Reported tortured and murdered by a street mob during the bloody 1958 revolution, Jamali turned up bruised but alive in a military jail. Tried as a traitor before Baghdad's infamous People's Court, he was sentenced to hang, a sentence commuted last week to ten years' imprisonment...