Word: lee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...behind the scenes. Nor could anyone tell for sure who was actually in charge of the country. Much of the talk centered on the enigmatic figure of General Chung Seung Hwa, 53, the Army Chief of Staff and Martial Law Commander. Last week Chung's deputy, Lieut. General Lee Hee Sung, was named as acting chief of the discredited but still powerful Korean Central Intelligence Agency. Chung immediately ordered a purge of the agency's upper echelons. Most observers concluded that he had already emerged as the dominant figure of the interim regime. Also, few doubted that...
...Chairman Lee lacocca had some good news for his 16 fellow Chrysler directors. Before they gathered for their regular monthly meeting, he had received a call from Treasury Secretary G. William Miller, who told him that the suffering No. 3 automaker was going to get the Government aid that it had been seeking since August. Nor would the assistance be chintzy. The Carter Administration had decided to back a federal loan guarantee of $1.5 billion, which was twice what Miller had indicated he would support only last September and a full $500 million more than the company had asked...
...October 25, The United Auto Workers(UAW) and the Chrysler Corporation reached agreement on a new three-year contract. On the same day, Chrysler chairman Lee A. lacocca announced that Chrysler will nominate UAW president Douglas A. Fraser for election to the company's board of directors at the May 1980 annual meeting...
...production of "Hamlet" with two bad actors. He told a friend. "If I can't act better than those two. I'd better give up." The friend got a friend to hear Hughes read, and hired him to play a one-line role in Frank Lee Short's production of "The Taming of the Shrew...
Thirteen professors of Sociology at Harvard have signed a letter to Brandeis supporting Cloward. Lee Rainwater, Professor of Sociology and one of the signers, yesterday called Cloward "one of the most distinguished sociologists in the world...