Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More than 250,000 people lined the sandy banks along the Susongchon River north of Pusan. "We should not delay the national task of modernizing Korea," President Chung Hee Park, 49, told them. "If we stop working now, Korea will waste another 20 years catching up." One hundred fifty miles away in Seoul, Old Campaigner and ex-President (1960-62) Posun Yun, 69, stirred another crowd of 250,000 by warning that Park's economic policies were wrecking the country. What is more, Yun charged, Park's government was "sick with corruption, irregularities and dictatorial authoritarianism...
...election time in South Korea, and on the eve of this week's voting, the country echoed with the same names and many of the same words that it heard in the 1963 campaign. The difference is that in 1963 Park was the raw, untested military man who had seized power in 1961, then traded in his khaki for mufti and taken on Yun at the polls. Park won-but only by a mere 156,000 votes of the 11,000,000 cast (out of a population of 27 million). Going into this week's elections, Park...
Progress & Problems. Under the firm rule of Park's Democratic Republican Party, Korea is emerging from its long years of isolation (TIME, March 10). Park has sent 46,000 troops to Viet Nam, promoted regional economic cooperation among the non-Communist Asian Pacific nations and normalized relations with Japan-a move that has proved worth $800 million in grants and credits. Park's five-year development plan has sharply expanded foreign and domestic investment and, for the first time, started Korea on the road toward self-sufficiency. In the past five years, more than 3,600 new factories...
...protest march began at the Public Garden at the corner of Arlington and Boylston Streets. The demonstrators marched up Arlington St., and made a left on Commonwealth Ave. to St. James Ave., where they congregated in front of the Park Square Building, which houses the Greek consulate...
...executive committee is now studying the possibility of establishing three projects next fall, according to President Benjamin A. Barnes '68. One committee would organize Puerto Ricans in Boston's South End. Another committee may be working in Jefferson Park, a housing project in North Cambridge. A third committee may teach either in the Cambridge Friends School or in Somerville -- a new area...