Word: chung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rioting started two weeks ago, with a wave of student demonstrations in Seoul. The protests were aimed mostly against the martial law that has been in effect ever since the assassination of President Park Chung Hee seven months ago. The specific targets of these protests: the ineffectual President Choi Kyu Hah, 60, and, most of all, the authoritarian figure behind the President, Lieut. General Chun, 48. As both the head of the Defense Security Command and acting director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, Chun was already being regarded as the country's offstage military ruler...
...military authorities obviously had become alarmed, because the demonstrations were the most extensive in South Korea since the assassination of President Park Chung Hee seven months ago. The students were protesting the martial law that has been in effect ever since, and against the failure of the regime to deliver on its promises of a new constitution and a specific timetable for free popular elections. The demonstrations had followed three days of rioting among striking coal miners in the southern city of Sabuk. Now, the army's crackdown raised fresh doubts about South Korea's ability to make...
...military Lieut. General Chun strongman behind the weak caretaker Cabinet of President Choi Kyu Hah, 60. Chun, a tough career soldier who once fought alongside U.S. forces in Viet Nam, assumed effective control behind the scenes following his couplike arrest last December of the former martial law commander, General Chung Seung Hwa. Chun has insisted, "I have no political ambitions," but he added to his personal power last month by appointing himself acting chief of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, a key post formerly held by Kim Jae Kyu, Park's convicted assassin. In a three-hour talk with...