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...conference, Lyndon Johnson crowned the U.S. diplomatic effort with a 4½-hour performance that showed the President at his best. Soon after his arrival, the President paid" a visit to South Korea's flinty, austere President Chung Hee Park. Blending flattery and cajolery for the next hour, he lauded Park for steering Korea from military to civilian government, hastened to assure him that the U.S. was not seeking peace out of weakness but out of a desire to attack "the underlying roots of the problem-human misery." Noting that he had entered public life to help people...
...circulating; and the generals themselves were busy choosing sides for the presidential power struggle that lies ahead once a constitution is written. Ky and his chief of state Thieu were, in fact, pondering the step taken in similar circumstances three years ago by South Korea's General Chung Hee Park, who shed his military uniform to run as presidential candidate at the head of an ostensibly civilian party...
Premier Chung and his Cabinet fled. Four hours later, freshly bathed, they presented their resignations to President Chung Hee Park because "today's incident has greatly impaired the prestige and honor of the Cabinet." Though Park refused to accept their resignations immediately, it seemed that a Cabinet reshuffle was imminent. As for Man of Action Kim, he, too, tendered his resignation-probably to avoid censure from the Assembly...
...three days of talks hosted by South Korea's President Chung Hee Park, the nine nations agreed to form a loose association to be called the Asian and Pacific Council. Eschewing a formal treaty, ASPAC's founders modestly limited their aims to consultation on economic and cultural matters. But it was the kind of friendly grouping that could develop into a new Asian and Pacific bloc in the United Nations. The foreign ministers will assemble again next year in Bangkok. Meanwhile, committees will weigh the feasibility of such cooperative ventures as a common commodities and fertilizer bank...
...coming young businessman can be seen while he watches the show. Scores of elegant new restaurants and bars have opened in the past few years, and they are always packed to their polished oak rafters with an ever expanding jet set, whom Spaniards call hi-lifers (pronounced hee-leefairs). Grandest of all is a converted palace in old Madrid, where, under 18th century tapestries and paintings of the court, diners are offered the specialty of the house: a whole chicken baked in clay, Roman-style, which is deftly parted by the waiter's silver hammer...