Word: hee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bubble Text: Yea! A perfect time to say something with a thick affected enthusiasm that will reek of artifice! Tee Hee, I have no shame...
...crowd of 3,000 supporters at a hotel in downtown Seoul, former Prime Minister Kim Jong Pil, 61, indicated that he too would seek the presidency, as the nominee of a party he would form later this month. A chief architect of the 1961 coup that brought Park Chung Hee to power, Kim Jong Pil is generally credited with forging economic policies that helped make Park's 18-year regime the crucible of a remarkable burst of development. The ex-Prime Minister said he was running in order to "take the judgment of the electorate" on the Park years...
...years South Korea has been a problem waiting to happen. Chun seized power in 1980, moving into the vacuum created a year earlier by the assassination of President Park Chung Hee, his longtime mentor. The product of a modest rural background, Chun was graduated from South Korea's military academy in 1955, and is a combat veteran of the Viet Nam War. Chun consolidated his hold in a 1981 presidential election that was conducted under martial law and excluded all but token opposition candidates. Even by South Korea's standards of political legitimacy, the former army general was widely regarded...
...modest and somewhat bookish Roh is one of Chun's oldest associates and few close friends. They graduated together from the Korean Military Academy in 1955, and both served with the South Korean military contingent during the war in Viet Nam. After President Park Chung Hee was assassinated by the head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency in 1979, Roh's troops were instrumental in carrying out the military coup that brought Chun to power...
...ceremony marking the university's 102nd anniversary exploded into a riot as some 1,000 students vented their rage over a police raid earlier in the day that resulted in the arrest of 36 hunger strikers. At the municipal stadium a victory march by 3,500 students from Kyung Hee University to celebrate their baseball team's championship turned into a political protest...