Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...previously stood aloof were now actively urging that the South Korean military keep clear of politics, and that Choi's civilian post-Park regime try to broaden its popular base. Reason: a major fear in Washington that if internecine mistrust in South Korea's top military leadership gets much worse, it might render the country dangerously open to invasion by the Communist regime in North Korea...
...government leaders, high-ranking military commanders, honest Communists and nonParty people had suffered, though they were innocent." But since Stalin's death, the Party had "resolutely eradicated the consequences of the cult of personality." Still, Pravda called Stalin a "distinguished leader" who had supplied a "need for centralized leadership, iron discipline and extreme vigilance" during most of his reign...
...under Stalin in World War II and the hope that peace would bring real freedom. For them, Stalin's birthday is an event to be remembered, if not celebrated. Says one Moscow intellectual: "The longing is not for Stalin himself; very few people approve of that style of leadership. It's the dream they miss...
...experienced Trudeau Liberal Party, unaccustomed to opposition after more than a decade in power, grown listless and, now, even leaderless. Just four weeks ago, in fact, Trudeau had resigned as party leader and had not been replaced. It was possible that he might be forced back into the leadership by a draft for the sake of the election; if not, Canadians asked themselves, who would become Prime Minister if the Liberals won? In the swirl of uncertainties, many voters could not resist a swelling mood of a plague-on-both-your-houses. Growled the Ottawa Journal: "Stupidity, intellectual dishonesty...
...came when Pedro Arrupe, Superior General of the highly influential Society of Jesus, informed his 27,000 members that John Paul has formally directed him to shape up discipline and loyalty among Jesuits. Among the first victims of reform: U.S. Jesuit William Callahan, who is being transferred from the leadership of Priests for Equality, apparently because it has agitated for a change in the Vatican ban on women priests...