Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best propaganda movie I saw was in my medic course. A guy gets up there on the screen and he says "Would you like to know what Communists call you in different countries? In London they call you bubble gum chewers. In France they call you gangsters. In Korea they call you murderers!" And he makes this a very personal thing. He points out at you from the screen and says "This is what they feel about you! How do you like being called a bubble gum chewer? You don't like it? How do you like being called gangster...
...Before the Com munists discovered that they, and not the U.S. Marines, were to share the fate of the French, several fierce battles were fought up and down hills so worthless that they had only numbers (representing elevation in meters above sea level), not names. In a Korea-like seesaw of hand-to-hand combat, two battalions of Marines took 1,000 casualties: nearly 200 dead and 800 wounded. The cost to Hanoi was 1,200 dead and countless wounded among the North's freshest, best-trained troops...
...SOUTH KOREA...
...Four years ago, South Korea's tough little retired army general Chung Hee Park scraped into the presidency with a bare 156,000-vote margin over former President (1960-62) and onetime Archaeologist Posun Yun, 69. Last week, Park showed just how far he and his country have come in those four years. In South Korea's most peaceful election in postwar years, more than 11 million out of 14 million eligible voters turned out to give Park and his reform-minded Democratic Republican Party a margin of more than 1,000,000 votes over...
Park's victory was a defeat not only for Yun but for the old-style politicians and the brand of factionalism that they represented. It was a major display of maturing political organizations as South Korea moves from the traditional Oriental politics of the elite to popular party rule. "Now that the election is over," Park told Koreans in a brief victory statement, "it is time for all of us to lay aside our differences and work together to modernize our country...