Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While U.S. officials deny that Herrera is getting direct American help, they praise him as a bright and honest soldier who is committed to a professional rather than a political military force. A senior Administration official says with approval, "Noriega considers him a threat...
...Hare is the busiest and most congested air-travel crossroads on the continent. Serving as a hub for the two largest U.S. carriers, United and American airlines, O'Hare is expected to handle about 57 million passengers and 800,000 flights this year. At peak periods air-traffic controllers direct up to 210 takeoffs and landings an hour. The airport, once an apple orchard (hence the call letters ORD), is functioning at 96% of capacity and has no room to expand because suburbs surround it. Yet air traffic is still growing. For the first seven months of this year...
...Republic, based on a constitution written to legitimate his seizure of power in 1980, began to founder in the summer of 1987, when the President, coming to the end of his seven-year term, attempted to pass his office to a loyal supporter and fellow general, Roh, without a direct election. On June 10, 1987, while Chun and Roh stood hand in hand in Seoul's Chamshil Gymnasium, accepting the applause of D.J.P. supporters at a sham convention to nominate the party's presidential candidate for the bogus election that would follow, antiregime students planned demonstrations that were to shake...
...Democrat. On June 29 Roh invited a television crew to remain behind after he had addressed a routine meeting of the D.J.P. To the amazement of those present, Roh announced that he would resign from all his party positions unless the Chun government agreed to eight democratic reforms, including direct presidential elections, freedom of the press and pardons for political prisoners. The June 29 Declaration, as it is now known, stunned his party and disrupted its strategy to hold on to power...
...Jung at first refused to believe the new political landscape was genuine, but he underestimated Roh's determination. A free and direct presidential election was held in December. Then, however, it was the opposition that lacked determination: rather than settle on a single candidate, who would probably have defeated Roh, the opposition split and ran two candidates, Kim Dae Jung and Kim Young Sam. After a tumultuous campaign, Roh polled 36.6% of the vote, far from a majority but enough to best both Kim Young Sam, who received 28%, and Kim Dae Jung, with...