Word: martials
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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South Korea, however, was under martial law while lee lived there. University students, for instance, had a midnight curfew and riot police supervising their dances...
...challenge was not lost on the tough, army-backed regime of President Park Chung Hee. After calling an emergency meeting of his Cabinet, Park clamped martial law on Pusan and replaced the local police chief with a general as military governor. The government also ordered a curfew, closed the campuses of both Pusan National University and Dong-a University, and imposed press censorship. Park appealed to the South Korean public to cooperate against "unruly moves threatening the foundation of constitutional rule...
...Catholic group, led by several priests and called the Democratic Socialist Party, has organized its own small guerrilla movement, composed of ex-seminarians and other devout laymen. Since 85% of Filipinos are Catholic, the guerrilla group is a highly symbolic new challenge to Marcos and the seven years of martial law. The movement is left-wing but also antiCommunist, and thus could represent an eventual counterforce to the much broader Communist insurgency...
...Catholic guerrilla group creates a new dilemma for Manila's archbishop, Jaime Cardinal Sin, who is already deeply worried about the growing number of priests and nuns who actively support the other, Communist insurgency. Politically conservative, the cardinal is nonetheless opposed to martial law. In an interview with TIME, Sin acknowledged, though with some apprehension, that he had heard of the Catholic guerrillas. Said he: "I don't believe they should do things that way because violence begets violence." The cardinal and other church leaders also fear that a witch hunt by the government could divide the church...
...crisis so difficult was that the stakes were so much greater than the common perception of them. I remain convinced to this day that Mrs. Gandhi was not motivated primarily by conditions in East Pakistan. India struck in late November; by the timetable that we induced Yahya to accept, martial law would have ended and a civilian government would have taken power at the end of December. This would almost surely have led to the independence of East Pakistan-probably without the excesses of brutality, including public bayoneting, that followed...