Word: changing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the votes were counted, the results proved a moderately encouraging victory for moderation. Of the 233 House of Representatives seats at issue, well over a two-thirds majority were won by the Democratic Party of former Vice President John M. Chang, whose defeat in a crooked election last March triggered the overthrow of Rhee. The Democrats also made heavy inroads in the Pusan factory districts, where the Socialists, running on a "recognize Red China" program, had high hopes...
Jockeying for Power. The full Assembly will pick the new President, with caretaker Premier Huh Chung the leading candidate. But under the new constitution, the Premier will be the real power. Public choice is still Chang, 60, a U.S.-educated lawyer and a Roman Catholic. But he is being challenged within his own party by Yoon Bo Sun, 62, an oldtime Korean aristocrat trained in geology and archaeology at Edinburgh University, who feels Chang is a Johnny-come-lately in the Democratic Party...
...national budget met by U.S. funds, the Democrats have promised to raise army pay 35% to calm the junior officers, who are still forcing senior officers to resign, and to give government clerks a 60% raise to discourage the taking of graft. Problem is where to find the money. Chang's men claim they could get it painlessly by confiscating the ill-gotten gains of Rhee's ministers. Privately, they admit such confiscations would be only a drop in the bucket. They would like to have the U.S. foot the bill, but the U.S. is more likely...
...this point, Harriet Bunker's activities had neatly paralleled the fictional behavior of Emma Atkins, wife of the hero of The Ugly American, who taught the natives of the imaginary Asian village of Chang 'Dong to manufacture long-handled brooms using local reeds, and for her good deed was honored with a village shrine. But Harriet Bunker's housewifely crusade received real support from high quarters...
...Cuba's government-run Confederation of Labor junketed through China from banquet to banquet and agreed with the Communist All-China Federation of Trade Unions in a joint condemnation of U.S. "imperialist aggression." A Chinese Communist trade delegation to Cuba, headed by Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Lu Hsu-chang, closed a deal with National Bank President Ernesto ("Che"') Guevara to buy 500,000 tons of Cuban sugar each year for five years. A fifth of the payment is to be convertible sterling and the rest vegetable oil, rice, cotton, manufactured goods and "entire factories." In Moscow...