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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, May 16. 1961
Korean Rebels Defy US Request to Halt
SEOUL, Korea — (UPI) — The army, which overthrew the government in a pre-dawn coup, today dissolved parliament and began arresting cabinet ministers in defiance of a plea from the United States.
Leaders of the junta also demanded that Premier John Chang come out of hiding to negotiate a peaceful transfer of power.
The rebels, headed by army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Chang Do Yung, had President Posun Yun make a special broadcast appeal urging Chang and his ministers to come to terms. He said the revolutionary committee would guarantee their personal safety.
YUN CALLED on the public to "cooperate" to prevent confusion and to maintain order. The civilian populace stayed calm and quietly obeyed a nighttime curfew order.
The United States opposed the revolt in statements by Charge D'Affaires Marshall Green and United Nations Commander Gen. Carter B Magruder. It demanded return of government control to Chang and urged ROK (Republic of Korea) army troops to use their influence to see that this was done.
The revolutionary junta ignored this request and pressed ahead with its victory moves, proclaiming martial law and clamping on censorship.
MAGRUDER, in a second statement, said there were only 3,600 revolutionary troops in Seoul and that the ROK air force and navy were shunning the rebels.
He said troops at the front along the armistice demarcation line with the communists were remaining "steadfast" and declaring that "there is no great amount of public support for the uprising."
Premier Chang and some of his ministers were in hiding. Others, including the defense and foreign ministers, were under arrest.
Gen. Chang, who was quoted as saying he intended to issue a new cabinet list later in the night or early tomorrow, named Maj. Gen. Pak Chung head of all political affairs until martial law is ended. Chung is believed to be the real strong man behind the coup.
The revolutionary committee claimed it would continue close ties with the United States.
COL. WON PAIK YUN, a spokesman for the new ruling junta, said the rebels had won the support of the army general staff and that President Posun Yun had endorsed their martial rule of the country.
The announcement was made after troops surrounded the ROK army headquarters in Young Don Po, near U.S. 8th army headquarters, and threatened to shell it unless the general staff went along with the revolt. The troops later were withdrawn, indicating capitulation.
The strong United States stand against the revolt apparently had caused top ROK army headquarters officers to waver in their support of the coup. Some of the rebel leaders also were reported in disagreement.
(Continued from page 1) today's meeting, said any information on the note would have to come from the White House. Press Secretary Pierre Salinger in turn said "I have nothing further to say about it at the moment."
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Salinger flatly refused to discuss whether the exchange had any effect on the projected Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting.
Kennedy's Feb. 22 note was handed to Khrushchev by Thompson on March 9, in Novosibirsk, Siberia. Khrushchev was touring agricultural areas.
Nikita's Note
THOMPSON AND KHRUSHchev then held a four-hour talk, after which the Ambassador reported that "I have always been an optimist. I always will be."
If Kennedy did meet Khrushchev, it would be after he confers with French President Charles de Gaulle in Paris the end of this month.
There have been reports that Kennedy would make an important speech to the country or to Congress between his return from Canada and his departure for Paris. Salinger would say only that "any discussion (of this) at the moment would be premature.
HE DID, HOWEVER, flatly deny a report in Newsweek Magazine that Kennedy was considering asking Congress for wartime wage-price controls and an increase of 30,000 in the draft.
Menshikov arrived for his meeting with Kennedy shortly before 10 a.m. EDT, and delivered Khrushchev's note during a conference in Kennedy's office.
The average U.S. housewife walks six miles a day, but a hospital nurse logs ten miles.
W.C. Review Aids Grades
Worried students who plan to take the Western Civilization examination this Saturday can relax-at least a little anyway. The review sessions may be your answer to a passing grade on the four hour examination.
Eleven out of 12 students who have taken the examination and were interviewed by the Daily Kansan said the sessions had helped them to organize the material covered in the course.
Review sessions for the coming examination will be held in Fraser Theater today and tomorrow from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Marvin C. Baker, Fort Lupton, Colo. senior said, "I found that the sessions brought everything into logical order after I had crammed facts into myself for two semesters."
Cynthia O. Vaughan, Kansas City junior said that the sessions had clarified her doubts about different periods of thought as well as different philosophies.
"The reviewing of the course also enabled me to pinpoint the importance of different readings."
Humanities Talk Set
Michael Scherer, visiting assistant professor of German, will speak on "Post-War German Literature" at the Humanities Forum at 7:30 p.m. today.
The forum, which will be held in the Oread Room of the Kansas Union, is open to the public.
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Johnson Assures Thailand of U.S. Aid
BANGKOK, Thailand — (UPI) — Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson today assured Thailand of the United States determination "to maintain adequate and responsible strength in the free world" against the communist threat.
Johnson flew in from Hong Kong for a two-day visit to this Southeast Asian kingdom concerned over domestic communist activities and Red gains in neighboring Laos.
He was met by top Thai officials seeking assurances of increased American arms aid and determined United States backing against the menace of communism in Southeast Asia. A 19-gun salute boomed out as he debarked from his U.S. military jet transport.
TILL WE MEET AGAIN
Seven years now I have been writing this column for the makers of Marlboro Cigarettes, and each year when I come to the last column of the year, my heart is gripped by the same bittersweet feeling. I shall miss you sorely, dear readers, in the long summer days ahead. I shall miss all you freckle-faced boys with frogs in your pockets. I shall miss all you pig-tailed girls with your gap-toothed giggles. I shall miss you one and all—your shining morning faces, your apples, your marbles, your jacks, your little oilcloth satchels.
But I shall not be entirely sad, for you have given me many a happy memory to sustain me. It has been a rare pleasure writing this column for you all year, and I would ask every one of you to come visit me during the summer except there is no access to my room. The makers of Marlboro Cigarettes, after I missed several deadlines, walled me in. All I have is a mail slot into which I drop my columns and through which they supply me with Marlboro Cigarettes and such food as will slip through a mail slot. (For six months now I have been living on after-dinner mints.)
or six months now I have been loving our tree dinner circuits
I am only having my little joke. The makers of Marlboros have not walled me in. They could never do such a cruel thing. Manly and muscular they may be, and gruff and curt and direct, but underneath they are men of great heart and sweet, compassionate disposition, and I wish to take this opportunity to state publicly that I will always have the highest regard for the makers of Marlboro Cigarettes, no matter how my lawsuit for back wages comes out.
I am only having my little joke. I am not suing the makers of Marlboros for back wages. These honorable gentlemen have always paid me promptly and in full. To be sure, they have not paid me in cash, but they have given me something far more precious. You would go far to find one so covered with tattoos as I.
I am only having my little joke. The makers of Marlboros have not covered me with tattoos. In fact, they have engraved no commercial advertising whatsoever on my person. My suit, of course, is another matter, but even here they have exercised taste and restraint. On the back of my suit, in unobtrusive neon, they have put this fetching little jingle:
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Are you bored with smoking, neighbor?
Then try that splendid Mariboro filter,
Try that excellent Mariboro fleighbor!
On the front of my suit, in muted phosphorus, are pictures of the members of the Marlboro board and their families. On my hat is a small cigarette girl crying, "Who'll buy my Marlboros?"
I am only having my little joke. The makers of Marlboros have been perfect dolls to work for, and so, dear readers, have you. Your kind response to my nonsense has warmed this old thorax, and I trust you will not find me soggy if in this final column of the year. I express my sincere gratitude.
Have a good summer. Stay healthy. Stay happy. Stay loose. © 1981 Macmillan Publishing Company.
The makers of Marlboros and the new unfiltered king-size Philip Morris Commander have been happy to bring you this uncensored, free-wheeling column all year long. Now, if we may echo old Max: Stay healthy. Stay happy. Stay loose.