Word: politicians
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...time of Park's death, the most prominent opposition candidate for President was Kim Dae Jung, the eloquent veteran politician who had first joined the National Assembly in 1960. The military, however, suddenly aired Kim's associations with a Communist-leaning party roughly 35 years earlier and sentenced him to death on grounds of sedition. The sentence was ultimately commuted to 20 years' imprisonment--thanks, it seems, to U.S. lobbying. Further pressure from Washington freed Kim to come to the U.S. for medical treatment. Ever since his return last year, Kim, now 62, has been banned from politics and kept...
...City and KCBS-TV in Los Angeles last week and their counterpart at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia two weeks ago; talks are being sought with KMOX-TV in St. Louis. Next week Jackson will air his complaints at CBS's annual stockholders' meeting in Philadelphia. After that, the preacher- politician plans to launch similar protests against NBC and ABC. Says Jackson: "The other two networks are just as much in violation...
...fact that judgements of Ed Meese's accomplishments and competence have always been, and continue to be, uniformly subjective. For every legal expert and politician who has condemned Ed Meese another has lauded him. No recognized institution, legal or political, has found enough "dirt" on the man to take any action against him. And charges levelled so confidently against him of "incompetence" are ridiculous: After graduating from Yale Law School Meese both practiced and taught law for many years, neither of which can be said of Robert F. Kennedy...
...Omar's father, sunk very low in his adopted nation, who is presented in the film's opening moments lying on his bed and drinking vodka. As Laundrette unfolds, however, his esteemed past, dignity and ideals come forward; he urges his son to "go to university, become a politician." He also retains a good deal of self-mockery and dry wit. On meeting Johnny at the laundrette's opening, he gently asks "Do you do a pink rinse or are you still a fascist...
Although he was assured of an easy victory for his own National Assembly seat, no French politician campaigned harder during the recent parliamentary elections than Jacques Chirac. Hurling himself into the fray, Chirac traveled nearly 200,000 miles, visited some 170 districts and made 150 public appearances. For Chirac, who will return to the offices in the elegant Hotel de Matignon where he served between 1974 and 1976 as Premier under then President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, all the hard work was a natural extension of the drive that has made him one of France's most formidable political figures...