Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spirit of dissent in South Korea has been awakened in large part by the almost miraculous triumph of "people power" in the Philippines that led to the fall of former President Ferdinand Marcos. Yet the differences between the two countries are glaring. Not even his enemies have accused the austere and hardworking Chun of Marcos-like cronyism or corruption. His army, unlike that of the Philippines, is strikingly well disciplined and unlikely to split into factions. Most of all, the South Korean economy has boomed even as the Philippine economy collapsed. While 20 years ago the average Filipino earned almost...
...According to Chun, his country's enemies have already begun maneuvering to sabotage two big events on Seoul's calendar: the 1986 Asian Games, beginning in September, and the 1988 Summer Olympics. Oppositionists reply that the government is using the threat from the North as a pretext to stifle dissent. Both West Germany and Israel, they point out, preserve a civilian democracy despite the dangers of attack from across their borders...
...sense of unity and purpose. Last month Kim Young Sam hastily joined the N.K.D.P. as Lee's "permanent adviser" in the hopes of restoring direction to the party. But the opposition remains factious and agendaless, and many foreign observers suspect that it may be more interested in provoking dissent than in promoting democracy...
...protesters. Mr. Crystal, however, in his zealous pursuit of convenient truth, completely avoids discussion of the fact that the actions of the Sandinista government with regard to its deplorable treatment of the Miskito Indians, or its suppression of civil liberties, especially the organs of the Church, which have voiced dissent over government policies, are objectively wrong and deserve approbation. It is precisely because of the spiking of these stories by such groups as the Committee on Central America (COCA) that I, for one, ventured to Boylston Auditorium to hear what those who oppose the Sandinista regime...
...there were even murmurs of dissent from Aquino's inner circle. Under the new constitution, said one minister, "we have the same situation as before --the concentration of power in one person, even though that person happens to be an angel or a saint." Other loyalists were disgruntled that the new plan had been drawn up by a very small group of counselors working independently of the Cabinet. "I have strong reservations about this," protested Local Government Minister Aquilino Pimentel. "I was never consulted." Even Vice President Salvador Laurel was not fully involved in determining the contents of the final...