Word: rulings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Previously Maung Maung and the party faithful had only agreed to discuss a referendum on one-party rule. If they hope their latest concession will buy some time, they are almost certain to be disappointed. In the wake of the election announcement, loudspeaker trucks raced through the streets, calling for new demonstrations to bring down the ruling clique. The same kind of insurgent spirit has gained the upper hand in most of the rest of the country...
...willow switch, Mary took charge. "She applied some disciplines just for discipline's sake," recalls Jackie, "like making us wear our clothes back-to-back. 'Why the same thing two days in a row?' I'd plead. 'Can't I stagger them?' 'No,' she'd say. 'This is the rule of the house...
Sports has its own rights and wrongs, carefullydefined in The Rule Book...
...came out ahead in a hard-fought battle for the presidency, has set South Korea on a more liberal path, a course to which the country is still accommodating itself. Political opposition is flourishing. At the beginning of Chun's rule in 1980, the country's best-known opposition leader, Kim Dae Jung, 62, was found guilty of treason and, after serving time in prison, forced into exile for two years. Upon his return, he was put under house arrest...
...lifting of a state of emergency two weeks ago, thousands took to the streets in a thunderous protest of the vote. The army moved in with tear gas and water cannons. Three people were killed, and 21 wounded. The plebiscite is actually a referendum on Pinochet's rule. A si vote would keep him in power until 1997. A no would bring open elections next year...