Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tokyo, crowds gathered outside department-store display windows along the Ginza to watch live TV coverage from Peking. In Seoul, the summit glowed from sets in jampacked downtown teahouses. The presidential trip was the biggest news item in Rome since the Italian team made the finals of the 1970 World Cup soccer matches; in Uganda, it rivaled the excitement of Apollo 15. For Southeast Asia's overseas Chinese populations, the event held a special quality. A bank on Singapore's Collyer Quay sold out a supply of 500 special $4 commemorative coins in a matter of minutes; within...
Park claimed that North Korea ' has nearly completed the preparation for invasion," and his Premier, Jong Pit Kim, reminded TIME Correspondent Herman Nickel that Northern troops would have to sweep only 30 miles to take Seoul "in a Sinai-style surprise attack." But in Washington, the State Department reacted with polite astonishment. "We have no evidence that an attack is imminent," a spokesman said, and his view was privately seconded by United Nations Command sources in Korea...
...repeatedly vowed that he will reunite Korea and force American "imperialists" to withdraw from the peninsula. But Kim's ground forces would find the going heavy. Seoul has about 650,000 well-trained men in its land, sea and air forces, an estimated 200,000 more than Pyongyang...
This year's Cornfield exposé cost the Sunday Times $60,000 and the team nine months. They interviewed more than 500 bankers, brokers and other sources and got additional reports from a score of Sunday Times correspondents from La Paz to Seoul. "At the stage where other papers are ready to publish, we're just beginning to dig," explains "Insight" Editor Barry. In the Philby story, for example, they did not rest their case after the cloak-and-dagger investigation was ended. They went on to examine Kim Philby's background and early life...
Students at Seoul National University had just draped the last bits of bunting over decorative arches and buildings when a convoy of uninvited guests arrived to help them celebrate the institution's 25th anniversary last week. Onto the campus poured helmeted, tiger-suited, carbine-packing troops of the country's toughest army unit, the Seoul Garrison Command. At nine other colleges and universities in the capital and the southern city of Kwangju, the scene was duplicated as troops laid down tear gas and broke classroom doors and windows in pursuit of fleeing students. In all, 1,900 students...