Word: kim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon the little gasoline-driven railway coach from the North Korea capital, Pyongyang, pulled up on the Russian side of the border. Russian-trained soldiers of the "Korean Peoples Army" bustled around, escorted two elderly Koreans to ward Marker 47. They were 74-year-old Kim Koo, former chief of the Korean government in exile, and 66-year-old Dr. Kimm Kiu Sic. Alone of South Korean political leaders, they had accepted a Communist invitation to go to Pyongyang. The subject for discussion: how to unify Korea...
Said Dr. Kimm: "I've come back feeling very much encouraged ..." Mr. Kim still feared that U.N.-sponsored elections in South Korea would split the country permanently at the 38th parallel, but he said: "We promise not to encourage strife...
This was rather less than Pyongyang had hoped for from Kimm and Kim. The Reds were doing everything they could think of to disrupt this week's elections, which would lead to a free Korean government in the south. They had proclaimed a People's Republic of All Korea. Then, last week, Russia announced that "necessary arrangements" had been made to pull its troops out of Korea entirely "in order to make American troops withdraw from Korea simultaneously." The Russian-controlled North Korea radio broadcast an election-eve message to U.S. Zone Commander Lieut. General John R. Hodge...
Michigan's ex-cowboy Governor Kim Sigler had been grabbing for leather ever since he first rode triumphantly into the state capital 15 months ago. While voters grumbled that he had fallen flat on his campaign promises, his own Republican state legislature bucked off every reform proposal like an unbroken pony with a burr under the saddle. Last week, on the final night of a wild & woolly special session, Kim Sigler dug in the spurs...
This week, as Kim Sigler flew south for a ten-day Florida vacation, it seemed that he would have little trouble collecting the 167,000 signatures he needed. But if Michigan Republicans could not get together behind him-and the Democrats could patch up their own internal feuding-there was a good chance that he would not be around to ride herd again after the November elections...