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Park's move came as an embarrassing surprise to Washington, which over the past two years has watched Cambodia, South Viet Nam, Thailand and the Philippines-nations once known as "Free Asia"-shed the last vestiges of democracy. The U.S. at present has more ground troops (43,000) in South Korea than in South Viet Nam and annually provides Park's regime with $240 million in economic aid. Washington informed Park that it saw no justification for the imposition of martial law. U.S. disenchantment deepened after Park forwarded a confidential outline of his constitutional proposals. As everyone suspected...
...that he had written the note, which said Muskie had condoned the epithet "Canuck," an insult to New England's French Canadians. The letter, published over the signature of a "Paul Morrison" in the Union Leader, helped to precipitate Muskie's famous "crying speech," when the candidate shed indignant tears and thus damaged his image of stability. Clawson last week declared: "I know nothing about...
Jeremy A. Sabloff, assistant professor of Anthropology, explained Monday that articles found at the Cozumel site shed light on the Mayans' trade patterns in the period prior to their defeat by Cortez...
...popular practice that almost ceased during the Cultural Revolution. Most of the restaurants are packed, since for the Chinese eating and drinking are among the few entertainment alternatives to such pious homilies as the ballet The Red Detachment of Women, even when, in its latest version, it has shed its heavy Mao-cult finale...
Energetic and articulate, "young Michael" Manley has brought new confidence, style and warmth to the traditionally conservative island politics. Swept to a landslide victory over the Labor Party last February on a platform of "love power," he has used his office to persuade his countrymen to shed some of the unhappier legacies of British rule. "One of the greatest tragedies of the whole postcolonial period," he told TIME'S Bernard Diederich, "is the tendency to come out of a dependent situation with a psychology of dependence." To help make the point, Manley has broken with the British shirt...