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Shortly after he seized power in a 1961 coup, South Korea's President Chung Hee Park revised the constitution, limiting the chief executive's tenure to two terms. Park wanted to make certain that there could never be another marathon reign like that of former President Syngman Rhee, who ruled for 13 years. Last week, after eight years in power, Park declared his intention to alter the constitution to allow himself to run in 1971 for a third term. If successful, Park would be in office until 1976-one year longer than Rhee...
...step will be a national referendum on the proposed amendment. In a televised speech, Park declared that he regarded the referendum as "a vote of confidence. If the proposal is defeated, I and the government will immediately step down." He enjoys enough popularity among both people and army to make such an outcome seem unlikely. Korea has not had a peaceful transfer of power in its history, and Park seems to think that the country is not yet ready...
...After making her abdication speech, Dame Sibyl retired to her comfy manor house to sulk. Her butler told callers that she was not at home. But the Dame's problems were far from solved. Guernsey's head of government, Sir William Arnold, announced that "the people of Sark must make up their own minds. Knowing Sark people as I do, I think they will wish to continue going their own way" Dame Sibyl's great-grandmother paid $14,400-for Sark in 1852. It was now beginning to look as if the Dame could not even give...
...that view is understandable. One reason: the National Lead Co.'s titanium pigment plant routinely emits a sulphuric acid stench that is downright sickening. The city is also a booming center of the chemical industry, prolific source of exotic effluents like phthalic anhydride and chlorinated phenolic compounds, which make the eyes water and smell like the medicines children swallow while holding their noses. All too often St. Louis stinks, as one resident says, "like an old-fashioned drugstore on fire...
...benefit them and not just Negroes. Blacks, too, need to recognize that their self-interest lies not in sterile separatism but in new coalitions with working-class whites. The nation's leaders must not play off one group against the other, but must show that blacks can make gains even while lower-middle-class whites do too. This is an extremely difficult task - perhaps impossible in the short run. Ultimately, it will require not only inspiring national leadership and a more efficient and equitable use of present resources, but also an in crease in those resources. It will...