Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Motorists heading home from work in Seoul one evening last week were abruptly confronted by a battery of agitated army troops wildly swinging their guns and bringing cars to a halt. A few moments later a convoy of army vehicles wormed through the snarled traffic and wheeled into the fashionable Hannam-Dong residential district. Suddenly, from a nearby compound housing military and government officials, came the loud staccato of automatic gunfire. After dark, tanks and armored cars were seen taking up positions in the capital, and around 3 a.m. came the finale: the reverberating sounds of another gun battle near...
Next morning Seoul's residents, still jittery over the assassination of President Park Chung Hee last October, learned that the sudden military maneuvering was not only an unexpected new twist to the Park case, but the opening of an ominous power struggle among top generals that could further jeopardize the country's uncertain political future. A terse announcement over government radio stated that Army Chief of Staff General Chung Seung Hwa, 53-effectively the country's senior officer in his capacity as martial law commander-had been arrested "in connection with the plot" against Park. Ten other...
...member electoral college called the National Conference for Unification. Though Choi (rhymes with jay) was the sole candidate and is nominally able to serve the five years remaining in Park's current term, there were signs that he wanted to limit his tenure in Seoul's presidential Blue House and lead the country's transformation to a genuine democracy. In an acceptance statement to the electors in the capitol's cavernous municipal gymnasium, he said: "I will observe the constitution, safeguard the nation, and strive for increased freedom...
...election was carried out under Park's less than democratic 1972 constitution, which, among other things, effectively made Park President in perpetuity. Thus critics regarded the vote as just more rigged politics. In Seoul hundreds of youthful dissidents had defied a martial-law ban on demonstrations and staged a noisy protest calling on students to mobilize "a last crucial battle for democratization." Police swiftly dispersed the protesters; more than 100 were arrested...
That bold presidential stroke overshadowed another judicial development. Wearing padded prison jackets and leather handcuffs, former Korean Central Intelligence Agency Chief Kim Jae Kyu and seven of his colleagues shuffled into a heavily guarded military court in Seoul, and the trial of Park's alleged assassins got under...