Word: seoul
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Some ceremony is necessary even in California. Last week the President hosted a gala state dinner for South Korean President Chung Hee Park in San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel, Nixon's favorite. Earlier, the President indicated that Washington expects Seoul to assume the major role in defending South Korea-a surprisingly mild affirmation of support, considering that the U.S. keeps 50,000 men in South Korea. Not even 6,000 antiwar demonstrators in Union Square could dampen the presidential humor. Nixon explained to the 238 diners that, although the U.S. Army Strolling Strings and the Marine Band...
Park's opponents have long feared that he was plotting to cling to the Blue House, his official mansion in Seoul. Last month the sort of student protests that brought down Rhee in 1960 erupted against Park. After rock-throwing clashes countered by tear gas, the police managed to restore order. Park's sudden announcement of his bid to stay in office may provoke new and more serious troubles. Politicians in the splintered opposition groups, students and intellectuals complain that Park has been in power too long and that his Democratic Republican Party is corrupt. Park himself remains...
More than 50,000 South Koreans watched the launch on a giant screen in Seoul. David Threlfall, 26, waited in London to collect his bounty from the bookmaking firm of William Hill Ltd.; he bet $24 in 1964 that men would land on the moon by 1971, and got 1,000-to-l odds. In Beirut on the morning of launch, a woman gave birth to her eleventh child-and promptly named him Apollo Eleven Salim. The Grand Mufti of Egypt, Sheik Ahmed Hereidi; said he approved lunar exploration because "the Koran urges Moslems to look up from their earthly...
...discussing it is against the law in South Viet Nam.* A number of South Vietnamese are in jail for suggesting no more than Nixon did. The Saigon regime fears that once the Communists were in the government, they would swallow up Thieu & Co. and eventually seize power. Asked in Seoul about the prospects for a coalition, Thieu said firmly: "I would like to give the shortest answer of this press conference. Just one word. Never. Are you satisfied...
Even while he was saying "Never" in Seoul, Thieu was perhaps hinting at yet another formula: the inclusion of leftists or Communists in his Cabinet. "At any time, any day, any week," he said last week, "when necessary, I have to change my Ministers to cope with the situation." The job Nixon now faces is to persuade the South Vietnamese President to accept the prospect of some kind of agreement with the Communists, without at the same time undercutting the fragile stability that Thieu has managed to build up in Saigon...