Word: generale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first it seemed to be a case of delayed judicial prosecution. General Chung, a political moderate with an impeccable military record, was long rumored to have been involved in plans against Park's authoritarian rule. As dis closed by confidential sources to TIME five weeks ago, Chung was alleged to have supported the plot against Park hatched by Korean Central Intelligence Agency Chief Kim Jae Kyu-but he had not bargained on assassination (TIME...
That gave Chung's opponents their chance. Kim's testimony provided an all too convenient opportunity for a calibrated power grab by a younger generation of hard-line generals. Chung's arrest was personally carried out by Major General Chun Du Hwan, 48, head of the army security command, who is responsible for the assassination inquiry. Now his role suggested he was emerging as the country's possible new military strongman...
...gradual political development mapped out by President Choi Kyu Hah gone too far to suit the young generals? Probably. One ranking government official in Seoul noted last week that the young generals had been "furious about the way democratization had been moving ahead." TIME learned last week that General Chun had first secretly consulted a handful of young fellow generals in sympathy with his aim. He discreetly assembled portions of at least two divisions for the arrest. Some units even seem to have left front-line positions on the demilitarized zone to come 30 miles to the fringes of Seoul...
...housing compound, it turned out, Chung units offered only moderate resistance, which Chun's forces easily contained. Then Chun and his units moved on to the Defense Ministry. After that second clash with units loyal to the other detained generals, Chun successfully emerged with Defense Minister Ro Jae Hyun's own signature on the dismissal and arrest papers for General Chung...
...cautionary. Apprehensive outcries wail forth from broadcasts, newspapers, magazines, posters, labels, environmental journals, medical tracts, Government reports, even books. One of the books is a brand-new broadside by Dr. Charles T. McGee, a clinical ecologist of Alamo, Calif., who is quoted above. His 220-page polemic issues a general alarm about multifarious dangers that lurk in every nook and cranny of contemporary civilization. Even fluorescent lighting, he says, may, in some weird way, weaken the muscles. The book, billed as a "crash course in protecting your health from hidden hazards of modern living," is entitled How to Survive Modern...