Word: hee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...practiced by President Park Chung Hee, "modern democracy" has become an Orwellian synonym for despotic one-man rule. Since January alone, Park has proclaimed four restrictive "emergency decrees," one of which bans any attempt to amend or criticize his custom-tailored constitution, which gives him virtually unlimited powers...
Russell R. Meyer '77 and Eun-Hee Chang '77, two Freshman Council representatives who have recently been elected to serve as two of three freshman representatives to CHUL both voted in favor of the recommendation...
...various times in his twelve-year rule, South Korea's dour President Park Chung Hee has talked about democracy -but never very convincingly. Last week he left no doubt about his true feelings, angrily cracking down on all opposing voices in the wake of widespread demands for a new, more liberal constitution to replace the repressive one he imposed on the country a little more than a year...
Ever since he rode to power in 1961 as head of a military junta, South Korea's President Park Chung Hee has done his best to disprove that adage -primarily by trying to suppress all political opposition. The press has been gagged, the National Assembly turned into a rubber-stamp parliament, and political rallies have been banned (except those approved by the government). Despite these and other unpopular measures-including the enlarging of South Korea's feared secret police, which is called the CIA - opposition persists...
...received 42 per cent of the vote in an unsuccessful race against Korean president Park Chung Hee in 1971, was offered a Harvard fellowship last summer. His matriculation was delayed when he was kidnapped to Korea last August from Japan where he was living in exile...