Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political structure for the country, will test the Directory's staying power. Prospects for its stability are not too good, since most collective leaderships have been the victims of their members' quests for unshared power. Octavian outmaneuvered his fellow triumvirs-Mark Antony and Lepidus-to become undisputed ruler of ancient Rome, and Soviet history is littered with collective leaderships that failed. Following Lenin's death, Stalin served on two consecutive triumvirates, each time ruthlessly eliminating his supposedly coequal partners. After Stalin, the various members of the Kremlin's new collective kept vying with each other...
...Will the dictatorial and ambitious Kim Il Sung, absolute ruler of the North, be encouraged by the Communist triumph in Viet Nam to attempt another war of conquest in Korea...
...peasant, Park was educated in a rigidly disciplinarian Japanese military academy in the pre-1945 years when Japan was still the colonial ruler of Korea. Profoundly influenced by Japan's passionate prewar brand of patriotism, Park transformed it into a fervent allegiance to Korea. He joined the new Korean army in 1946 and enjoyed a swift rise, interrupted only once, in 1948; ironically, for so militant an antiCommunist, he was tried and acquitted of being a Communist agent...
Elsewhere, however, the situation remained cool. Unexpectedly, Assad decided to give the 1,200-man U.N. Disengagement Observer Force on the Golan Heights a full six-month extension. Discussing this surprising move, an Egyptian diplomat suggested that the Syrian ruler "had to renew for six months because he had no Suez Canal to reopen." He was referring to the fact that Sadat, while limiting the U.N. mission in Sinai to three more months to keep pressure on for peace talks, had also decided to reopen the canal next week to emphasize his desire for a settlement. Thus, Assad...
Ford knew that in foreign ministries around Asia, a triumphant and emboldened Hanoi is certain to make its influence felt most immediately. Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, figurehead ruler of the Khmer Rouge insurgents who now control his country, made that point in its most extreme form when he boasted last week: "The U.S. won't be able to hold on to Taiwan forever; the same goes for South Korea. In Thailand the people will also rise. How long will it take? Not very long." As if in reply, Ford said: "These events, tragic as they are, portend neither...