Word: chungs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some 20 Congressmen. South Korean Rice Broker Tongsun Park was a well-heeled friend who entertained lavishly and contributed thousands of dollars to their election campaigns. To the Park Chung Hee regime in Seoul, Businessman Park (no kin to the autocratic President) was a wily influence peddler who over the past decade spent millions of dollars in Washington to head off threatened cutbacks in U.S. military aid or the withdrawal of American troops from South Korea. In fact, TIME has learned, federal investigators have turned up evidence that Park was a master swindler. In a scheme worthy of Terry...
South Korean President Park Chung Hee was formally notified of U.S. plans for the troop withdrawal last week by Philip Habib, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, and General George Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. During a three-hour session in the Blue House, the presidential mansion in central Seoul, Park took the news-by then hardly a surprise-calmly and thanked his visitors for all the U.S. has done for his country. He was aware, Park said, that the G.I.s could not remain in Korea forever...
...Brien, Chung (10) and Frangos. 123 456 7 R H E HARVARD 100 050 1 7 8 0 PRINCETON...
When the Chairman, Chiang Ch'ing, and some leading comrades and their troops descended upon Peking in March 1949 and took possession of its center point, the Imperial City, they appropriated for their own use the western section bounded by the central and southern lakes called Chung-nan-hai (literally, Central and Southern Sea). Each leader, and his wife and children -those who had survived the war-were assigned an apartment within this former
...ideas were not easily carried out. During the peak of the crisis she flew to the side of the Premier several times to help "cool things down." Constant threats, divisiveness among the people, and conspiratorial actions made it almost impossible for them to work-even at their home at Chung-nan-hai, which had also become infiltrated by the enemy. Nor could they sleep or eat there safely. Just to survive the Chairman and their defenders quietly evacuated Chung-nan-hai and established themselves at the Chinhai Hotel. That was inconvenient, so they moved on to the Great