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Word: parkes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Riots and Rights | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...rioting was only part of a broad surge of unrest against Park's autocratic rule. Three days before the Pusan riots, all 69 opposition deputies in the 231-member National Assembly angrily resigned to protest the expulsion of their popular leader, New Democratic Party Chief Kim Young Sam. The assembly majority-carefully stacked with tame members appointed by Park-had voted to oust Kim after he attacked the government as "a basically dictatorial regime," called on the U.S. to "pressure" Park on behalf of human rights and declared that he was prepared to discuss reunification with North Korean Dictator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Riots and Rights | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...withdrawing 1,500 of its support troops from the country, Brown reassured the South Koreans that the U.S. stood ready to come to their defense in case of a North Korean attack. American officials also said that Brown's briefcase carried a private, more pointed message for Park: a rebuke from President Carter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Riots and Rights | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...groups from several women's colleges showed up to participate. Approximately 10,000 people, including about 1,000 men and contingents from all over the East Coast and from as far away as Alaska, joined the demonstration. The crowd massed at Columbus Circle on the southwest corner of Central Park and marched down Broadway to 42nd Street, the pornography capital of New York, and maybe the world...

Author: By Cheryl R. Devall, | Title: Hitting the Hard Core Of the Big Apple | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...watched the procession pass by understood WAP's arguments or sympathized with them. A woman who claimed to oppose the death penalty on principle except for child pornographers said she decided not to join the march because, "This crowd is too colorful for me." She settled on a park bench nearby...

Author: By Cheryl R. Devall, | Title: Hitting the Hard Core Of the Big Apple | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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