Word: kyi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sometimes detains lower-level party workers. The most prominent party, the National League for Democracy, which claims a membership of 450,000, is a coalition of convenience for three of the best-known opposition figures: former Generals Aung Gyi and Tin Oo, and the highly popular Aung San Suu Kyi, the British-educated daughter of independence hero Aung...
...study of the Middle East is a tremendous field," Frye says. "I have been burdened by it, but I have also been fascinated by it. I am retiring next year, and [Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukranian History Omeljan] Pritsak is retiring next year--but we are the only two who are actively engaged [in keeping the study of the area popular...
...date for the balloting, and the demonstrations went on. By last week the opposition's emerging leadership appeared to be focusing on the issue of how to negotiate a transfer of power. Three leading dissidents -- former generals Aung Gyi and Tin Oo, and Aung San Suu Kyi, daughter of one of Burma's great nationalist heroes and the country's newest and brightest political star -- wrote to Maung Maung formally rejecting the proposed elections. They were joined in that demand by former Prime Minister U Nu, who had been ousted from power in 1962. Later, a government election commission reportedly...
...name to his government two popular opposition figures, retired Brigadier General Aung Gyi and Aung San Suu Kyi. That omission all but doomed the effort. Aung Gyi, who won wide support for his public challenges to the defunct Ne Win regime, called U Nu's action "preposterous." Aung San Suu Kyi, the daughter of a martyred national hero, told TIME that "U Nu is a possibility" to head an interim government. But she savors comparisons of herself with the Philippines' Corazon Aquino, and when asked if she was willing to head a government, she responded, "If I thought it necessary...
July 18: Carter announces second cabinet shakeup, to prepare for his campaign. He removes all current officeholders. Kim Jae Kyi, former head of the Korean CIA is made head of Justice Department. Former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo becomes Secretary of Defense, Idi Amin is named Secretary of State. Miz Lillian takes over the U.N. Ambassador slot...