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...President Park Chung Hee last week closed five of his six presidential villas, and having set that example, called on his people to begin a nationwide bout of belt tightening. The reason: a further decline in South Korea's shaky economy. So, said Park, government officials must stop driving cars and learn to commute by bus or bicycle, reduce their liquor intake and cut restaurant side dishes to a maximum of three. In keeping with his austere mood, Park advised women to wear their skirts shorter and demanded crew cuts for men. Above all, civil servants must stay...
...garlanded with wreaths and newly made flags decorated storefronts and streetcars. The midnight curfew was lifted for the day, and 5,000 prison inmates were released on amnesty. In a bone-chilling drizzle before the national capitol building, 15,000 shivering spectators watched former military Strongman General Park Chung Hee, 46, take the oath of office as South Korea's fifth civilian President. Promising never "to permit the resurgence of dictatorship under any disguise or pretext," Park said: "The bright morning of the new republic has dawned. Let us put depression, melancholy, confusion and pessimism behind us and create...
...Greece. And on either side of them were: King Baudouin of Belgium in army khaki; Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, splendid in his decorations and chartreuse sash; West Germany's President Heinrich Lübke; Philippines President Diosdado Macapagal; Korea's President-elect General Park Chung Hee. They, along with 213 other world leaders, headed to St. Matthew's Cathedral, eight blocks away...
When General Park Chung Hee ran for President eight weeks ago, he was so confident of victory that he held the most honest election in South Korea's history. The result was almost disastrous; he squeaked in with only 43% of the total vote. Thereafter, Park's Democratic-Republican Party vowed never again to risk such a close shave. Last week, as South Korea elected a new National Assembly, things were a lot closer to normal...
When tough little General Park Chung Hee, 46, boss of South Korea's military junta, doffed khaki for mufti last August to run for President, many expected an elaborately rigged election ending in a landslide for Park. It did not happen that way. Park won-but just barely, and after the freest, most honest election South Korea has known...