Word: recants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Korea's President for nearly two years after the overthrow of Syngman Rhee in 1960. The charge against Yun was that he had contributed $1,000 to antigovernment student demonstrators. "The money was intended to revive democracy in Korea," admitted Yun, who refused to recant. If convicted, he could receive the death penalty...
...they do not, there looms the shadow of the dilemma that undid Johnson in 1968: Nixon cannot defeat the invasion by intensifying the ground war, yet he dare not wholly retreat and thus recant on his pledges. So, once more, the next President of the U.S. may owe his job to events in a tiny, alien land 10,000 miles from Washington...
History's most famous diet-Worms -is having its 450th anniversary this week, and Roman Catholics in that town on the Rhine have appealed to Pope Paul VI to say a good word for Martin Luther, whose refusal to recant there precipitated the Protestant Reformation. Referring to the Pope's acknowledgment that the Roman Church was partly responsible for the Protestant-Catholic split, the six Worms laymen and clergymen who signed the appeal called for a papal statement "bringing detente in the ever-present tensions regarding the excommunication of Martin Luther...
...standstill ceasefire. In the 113 days that elapsed before Mrs. Meir announced that her government was ready to resume negotiations, Israel tried to get the U.S., its principal ally, to agree: 1) to institute a long-range program of military aid and economic assistance; and 2) to recant on Secretary of State Rogers' policy that Israel must return to its Arab neighbors all but "insubstantial" pieces of territory captured during the Six-Day War of 1967. The U.S. agreed to provide $500 million in aid, principally jet fighters, electronic equipment and tanks, but refused to change its stand...
...hospitalized with a serious heart ailment. There was another reason for his recall. Dubček was spotted as he slipped into the party's massive brownstone quarters overlooking the Vltava River in Prague. He was reportedly subjected to grilling by a purge commission, and asked to recant his role in the 1968 reforms. He refused. Then he was asked to resign from the party. Again he refused. For Dubček, who remains a loyal Communist, the ordeal was punishing. Last week he was said to be under heavy guard in Prague's Sanops Clinic, undergoing treatment...