Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...casualties, leveled once graceful Cambodian cities and scorched the tranquil countryside. Admitting the futility of further resistance, the remaining leaders of the Khmer Republic drove to a prearranged meeting place-Kilometer 6 on Route 5-and there surrendered to officers of the Communist-dominated Khmer Rouge insurgents. Not since Seoul was overrun by North Korean attackers nearly a quarter-century ago had a national capital fallen in combat to Communist troops...
...same time, Park bore down on the chief centers of resistance to his government: the churches and universities. Three of Seoul's best-known Protestant ministers were arrested on vague charges of "misusing" some monetary contributions from West Germany. (Seven U.S. missionaries who donned hoods and nooses to protest the hangings were questioned by officials but later released.) Two dozen colleges and universities in and around Seoul were closed, and more than 200 students were arrested for urging Park's downfall. One student committed suicide by disemboweling himself on the campus of Seoul National University. He left behind...
...Year Gerald Ford, the first President to comeunelected to the Oval Office. Though he began his stewardship buoyed by immense popular good will, Ford disillusioned many Americans with his sudden unconditional pardon of Nixon. For all his fall campaigning at home and his ventures abroad to Tokyo, Seoul and Vladivostok, Ford did not seem quick to assert the firm and imaginative leadership that the U.S. so badly needed. Still, at year's end, Ford had been in office only 144 days, and that was plainly too short a period to tell how effective his presidency might ultimately...
Scarcely back from his visits to Tokyo, Seoul and Vladivostok, President Gerald Ford met in Washington last week with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who had spent the previous weekend in Britain with Prime Minister Harold Wilson...
...soon as Henry Kissinger finished shepherding President Ford through Tokyo, Seoul and Vladivostok, the Secretary of State embarked by himself on another diplomatic tour, this one to China. It is Kissinger's seventh trip to Peking since he helped open the Sino-American dialogue in July 1971. Chances are he will find China's leaders more troubled and uncertain than on any of his previous visits...