Word: rhee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troubles in the South could give Pyongyang an excuse to launch a propaganda campaign against his government. The flinty President might have been worried about something else too. Eleven years ago, massive student protests against corruption were instrumental in bringing down the government of his predecessor, the late Syngman Rhee...
...another occasion, the wire services entirely ignored one of his scoops -the discovery that President Syngman Rhee had refused the offer of Indian troops at the height of the Korean War -until he leaked it to the New York Herald Tribune. By 1966, when he beat everyone with the first authentic account of the Jackie Kennedy-William Manchester squabble, A.P. and U.P.I. were finally paying attention...