Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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While Rhee did his belated pruning, Huh Chung energetically set about repairing the wrecked machinery of Korean government. Former Home Minister Choi In Kyu was arrested for his flagrant falsifying of the March 15 election, confessed that in accordance with a Cabinet decision, he had collected the written resignations of all Korea's mayors and police chiefs before the elections, and told them their resignations would be accepted unless "they secured victory for Rhee and Lee Ki Poong." But he credited the national police director with the plan for "stuffing ballot boxes beforehand with 40% Liberal votes." Then...
...Capital Division for most of the Korean war, he fought brilliantly all the way from the Pusan perimeter to the Yalu, earned from U.S. General James Van Fleet the nickname "Tiger." For Koreans his nickname took on new meaning last year when, after being named chief of staff, he set out to eradicate grafting by the R.O.K. army's underpaid officers. Before he was finished, he had cashiered 1,700 officers, including 15 generals...
...President Eisenhower's visit to Japan next month. Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi set out to prepare a modest present: the ratification of the revised U.S. Japan security pact. Howding with rage, the opposition Socialists launched a filibustering delaying action. They declared themselves fearful of "remilitarization," charged that the pact would make Japan a target in some future nuclear war between the West and Communism. When Kishi moved to end the uproar by using his clear majority in the Diet to ram through ratification, the opposition last week took to the streets...
There were still muttered complaints. "What a grudging mood seems to have set in," complained Daily Express Columnist Godfrey Winn. Labor M.P.s protested the expense (an estimated $112,000) of the Caribbean honeymoon aboard the royal yacht Britannia. There was grumbling over the Palace's refusal to let the young couple drive in an open car through London on their way to embarking, and the banning of any sightseeing craft from the vicinity of the yacht itself. But when the great day finally arrives this week, it could be safely predicted that all Britain will be vibrating like...
...set of facts-or the set of what he considers facts-and our set of facts are basically different." Hearing of Nehru's criticism,Chou, in obvious anger, called a press conference, huffed: "This is not the right way to treat a guest. It was unfriendly. I did not go to Delhi to be called an aggressor...