Word: chungs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dead of night last week in Seoul, the police cordon around the nondescript house of Dae Jung Kim soundlessly evaporated. President Chung Hee Park's government declared that there was "no longer" any need to hold the controversial opposition leader under protective custody. For the first time since he was mysteriously abducted from a Tokyo hotel room 2½ months ago, Dae Jung Kim was free...
...unsuccessfully against President Park Chung Hee in the 1971 South Korean presidential elections, was appointed a visiting fellow to Harvard last July under Reischauer's sponsorship...
...investor, with more than $326 million in private investments. Then came the mysterious kidnaping last month in Tokyo of South Korean Opposition Leader Dae Jung Kim. Although Kim was released in Seoul five days after being abducted, many Japanese are convinced that South Korean President Chung Hee Park's CIA masterminded and carried out the bizarre plot in violation of Japanese sovereignty. Now Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka has bowed to public pressure and dramatized his country's displeasure by postponing until mid-October the annual ministerial meeting between the two countries. It had been scheduled for next week...
...supporters accused the South Korean Central Intelligence Agency of masterminding the kidnaping. They pointed out that Kim, as leader of the New Democratic Party, polled 46% of the vote for president against Chung Hee Park in 1971. Kim went into exile when martial law was declared in October 1972, and in appearances in Japan and the U.S. has been criticizing Park's strongman rule...
...chloroform-like anaesthetic, and three knapsacks, one of them large enough to hold an adult. So smooth was Kim's kidnaping-or possibly his murder-that Japanese authorities speculated that it was the work of the ever-efficient Korean CIA, acting perhaps on the orders of President Chung Hee Park, whom Kim had called "an Asian version of Hitler." Exiled since last year, Kim, 48, who had astounded Park by gaining 46% of the vote in the relatively free presidential election of 1971, was a constant critic of Park's subsequent takeover of all government powers. He seemed...