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...Journal line is a hit with many businessmen. As Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro told TIME'S Elizabeth Rudulph: "They ring the bell with their readers. People are seeing in print what they believe themselves." But even Shapiro admits that Journal editorials tend to be "somewhat strident." That stridency is at least partly redeemed by the Journal's op-ed page, a mélange of opinion (not always conservative), letters to the editor and coverage of the arts. The page now appears twice weekly but will become a daily feature in January...
...biggest catch was Kim, who was thus eliminated from the presidential elections, which the government has pledged to hold in 1981. The field seemed clear for the military to put forward a candidate of its own, perhaps the emerging strongman, Lieut. General Chun Du Hwan. As for the millionaire culprits, the authorities were magnanimous: the nine would "resign from all public offices" -and donate their wealth to the government's public welfare fund...
...that has been in effect ever since the assassination of President Park Chung Hee last October, and against the failure of the weak government of interim President Choi Kyu Hah to produce democratic reforms. The military-backed regime-dominated by the country's emerging strongman, Lieut. General Chun Du Hwan, head of the Defense Security Command as well as acting chief of the Korean CIA-responded with a far-reaching crackdown. It closed all 212 universities, detained hundreds of student militants, and arrested leading political figures, notably Kim Dae Jung, a dissident leader and a popular native...
...Death to General Chun!" In South Korea's provincial capital of Kwangju, tens of thousands of protesters swarmed through the streets venting their anger at the martial-law government in power in Seoul and against the country's newest strongman, Lieut. General Chun Du Hwan. The turmoil soon turned into a full-scale insurrection. Rebellious citizens seized effective control of Kwangju, which is 175 miles south of Seoul, from the fleeing police. Rioting spread to 16 other towns of the province. After four days, more than 100 people had been killed and uncounted hundreds wounded...
...Even under [President] Park, nothing like this ever happened." A sense of distrust and fear seemed to pervade the city. Said a longtime resident of Seoul: "If the North Koreans sent planes to strafe the city, people would think it was Chun Du Hwan attacking the dissidents." Remarked a Kyung Hee University professor: "This is a season of spite and spleen...