Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, IOP Director and former Pennsylvania Gov. Richard L. Thornburgh left his Harvard post this summer to replace Edwin Meese III as U.S. attorney general. Onlookers have speculated that Thornburgh accepted the Reagan appointment--which would expire in January--with the hopes that, if Bush were elected in November, he would stay on. Should Dukakis win, however, Thornburgh would have to vacate the post, perhaps returning...
...Cambridge City Council, eight of whose nine members have publicly endorsed LoPresti, say that he is an effective representative of his constituents and believe there is no reason to replace the sixth highest ranking member of the State Senate. The ninth member, David E. Sullivan, serves as general counsel to the Secretary of State and may not legally make endorsements...
Chun's Fifth 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...
...military and intelligence services remain powerful and threatening. Last week seven military men, including two brigadier generals, were arrested in connection with an assault on a journalist. The chief of army intelligence, Major General Lee Kyu Hong, was relieved of his post on charges that he attempted to block an investigation of the incident. As long as Seoul believes, justifiably, that there is a military threat from North Korea, the South Korean armed forces are bound to maintain a strong influence. "The government of ((South)) Korea is a big ship, and you must change course slowly," says D.J.P. Assemblyman...
...defense officials are worried about the pressure to ban low-altitude flights. "I am concerned that this accident would cause people to relate it somehow to low-level training," said U.S. Army General John R. Galvin, the NATO commander. NATO defense planners rely heavily on aircraft to offset a Warsaw Pact advantage in tanks, and effective use of aircraft demands low approaches to avoid radar and ground-to-air missiles...