Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After sitting on the three-man U.N. committee that negotiated the Korean ceasefire, Pearson in 1952 was elected U.N. Assembly President. For his unruffled performance. Pearson was nominated by Denmark, with Britain and France, to succeed Lie as Secretary-General, once again was vetoed by the Russians. The job went to Dag Hammarskjold. In 1955 Pearson took off for Moscow at the invitation of Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov-something that no NATO Foreign Minister before him in the tense 1950s had done. Pearson talked trade with the Russians, "did my best to disabuse them of some of their...
...victory belonged in large part to the man who relayed the U.S. pressure, short, wiry, U.S. Ambassador Samuel D. Berger. Called "Silent Sam" by the Korean press for his reluctance to make public pronouncements, Careerist Berger, 51, is a discreet, effective, behind-the-scenes diplomat. When General Park last month imposed a new ban on civilian political activities and announced a referendum designed to keep his military junta in power for another four years, Berger set about the task of convincing the general that he must abide by his pledge to President Kennedy 17 months ago to restore civilian rule...
Berger's lever was the U.S.'s annual $500 million aid program to South Korea, without which Park's government could not remain solvent. To a steady stream of top Korean officials who came to the four-story U.S. embassy in downtown Seoul, Berger explained that the U.S. might have to re-examine its aid program unless Park let the civilians come back. To show that Berger was not bluffing, the U.S. recently delayed a promised $25 million desperately needed by South Korea to pay for import purchases...
...troubles for Walker Hill (named after the late U.S. General Walton Walker, who commanded U.N. forces during the Korean war) began when its architects, who had never designed a hotel, positioned bungalows so artistically-and precariously-on the hillsides that a good rainfall threatened to slide them majestically into the Han River; the management is now frantically planting trees to stop mud slides. Then public funds appropriated for the project mysteriously started turning up in private pockets; eight top Walker Hill officials are currently under arrest or investigation for embezzlement and bribery. So bad was Walker Hill's credit...
...from the southern provinces to parade before Seoul's Duk Soo Palace with a placard scrawled in his own blood: GENERAL PARK, PLEASE DO SOMETHING TO SETTLE THE CRISIS. Farmer Song was thrown in jail, along with some 200 other demonstrators who openly protested South Korean Strongman General Park Chung Hee's broken promise to call general elections in May and hand over power to the civilians. The wholesale arrests only served to attract more attentiom to the noisy campaign of former President Yun Po Sun, 65, and New Rule Party Leader Huh Chung, 67, who touched...