Word: chungs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administration, he will continue to command the support of most Filipinos. But whether the people like it or not, the Philippines for the foreseeable future will continue under a dictatorship that is somewhat more stringent than that of Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore but less oppressive than that of Chung Hee Park in South Korea...
South Korean President Chung Hee Park, 55, last week moved to make himself his country's permanent dictator. In a series of constitutional amendments, which will be submitted to a national referendum later this month, Park proposed several sweeping changes that will enable him to perpetuate his rule as long as he chooses. The move came one week after Park proclaimed martial law, dissolved the National Assembly, outlawed political activities by other parties, imposed tight military censorship, and shut down the universities, the source of his most vocal and persistent opposition...
...took up positions in front of the National Assembly, the capitol, the opposition-party headquarters and newspaper offices. Troops surrounded the house of the editor of Seoul's biggest daily and quickly turned Yonsei University into an armed camp. Then, in a pre-recorded television speech, President Park Chung Hee informed South Koreans that he was proclaiming martial law and dissolving the National Assembly. He also banned all political activities, closed the universities and imposed tight censorship on the press...
...Benigno Aquino, an opposition Liberal Party Senator and presidential aspirant whom Marcos has had arrested as a Communist collaborator. In July, Aquino argued in the weekly Far Eastern Economic Review that "our people are ready for leadership. Right now they will accept even a Lee Kuan Yew or a Chung Hee Park. They will accept a diminution in civil liberties if only these are properly explained to them. You can cut corners now." Marcos had cut the corners all right, but whether he could stitch them together again remained to be seen...
...defend the colonels in Greece, the official feels that there, too, the Vice President carried out the orders he was given. But Agnew does not always perform so well. When he visited South Korea for the first time, he got into such a row with President Chung Hee Park that he was treated with cool disdain when he paid a second visit...