Word: junta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed to notice-or care about -the details of Park's constitutional document. Fact was, it would permit the soldiers of the military junta to exchange their khaki uniforms for mufti, and continue ruling as before. Contemptuous of the "parliamentary impotence'' of civilian politicians. General Park reduced the National Assembly to the role of a powerless rubber stamp. Full powers were given to the popularly elected President. Leading candidate for that office, and almost certain winner in elections next March, is General Park himself...
Moreover, the junta has provided a clean and efficient government. Official corruption and smuggling, which once accounted for 70% of the country's retail trade, have been drastically curtailed. Exports have climbed 37% to a record $55 million, and bank receipts of compulsory savings on the salaries of all wage earners have given the government a substantial supply of working capital. Though one-quarter of the total labor force is unemployed, a new $2.5 billion five-year plan is expected to take up much of the slack...
Sensational as it was, the Kim-Choi scandal had to share the headlines with another story. After his swift coup in May 1961, General Park Chung Hee pledged that his 32-man junta would go back to the barracks "when all revolutionary tasks have been accomplished." The strongman, who so far has done an impressive job of ridding South Korea of corruption and creating a measure of economic stability, last week published a draft constitution that will restore civilian rule by next summer. But when Park goes back to the barracks, it will be merely to change into civvies...
...main preoccupation for more than a year, while Turkey's economy teetered and riots erupted in the cities. Republican Premier Ismet Inonu, 78, wanted a partial amnesty. His coalition partners in the Justice Party, as political heirs of Menderes, demanded immediate and total amnesty. The army junta, which had overthrown Menderes was against letting anyone go. Wily Inonu finally won out by allowing his divided government to collapse and forming a new coalition with two small parties that agreed with him. Striding spryly up to the rostrum after the Deputies had passed his amnesty, Inonu said: "This...
...junta's "dance control" edict, under which couples were previously sent to jail if seen dancing in public, has been relaxed, and the government's payroll is back to its pre-coup size of 240,000; it is expected to rise by an additional 10,000 by the end of the year. In Seoul, police last week were herding prostitutes back into their old houses in order to maintain more effective watch over them. Under the new rules, the girls have to obey two regulations: they must deposit a portion of their earnings in savings accounts, and attend...