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...even more serious obstacle to M.P.L.A. rule is the sad state of Angolan civil administration. In southern cities like Huambo and Bié (formerly Silva Poôrto), white Portuguese held virtually every civil job before independence, all the way down to postal clerks and telephone operators. With many trained people gone into exile or into the bush, the problem of staffing a new government may be insuperable...
...people sitting there talking. Nowadays Piazza Sabotino looks like the track at Le Mans-no trees, no benches, just traffic and the chaotic sameness of the rest of the city." Someday Novelli, in what may be his most radical plan, also wants to expropriate idle land across the Po from Turin and convert it into a massive municipal park...
...amounts of foreign investment capital, the majority from Japan. Until then, Korea had stagnated under the ineffectual, if autocratic rule of aging President Syngman Rhee. Overthrown in 1960 by spontaneous, nationwide student demonstrations, Rhee was replaced for a brief period by a truly democratic regime led by President Yun Po Sun. But Yun's government proved incapable of maintaining public order in the face of continued demonstrations and the inability of squabbling politicians to decide on a national policy. In 1961 the government was ousted in a bloodless coup by Park, then a general in the Korean army...
Last year Park ordered a massive swoop on his critics throughout the country. No fewer than 168 of them were found guilty of various antigovernment activities. Some were sentenced to death, including former President Yun Po Sun, who was accused of giving money to support student protests. Eventually the death sentences were rescinded and most political prisoners released. But eight men convicted by a military tribunal last year of fomenting anti-Park demonstrations were executed, and the current repression continues unabated. Under his name last month, Park issued Presidential Emergency Decree No. 9, which makes any act of "denying, opposing...
...Giok Po Oey Ithaca...