Word: soo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small man (5 ft. 4 in.), Park kept himself in military trim. He was a devout Buddhist, and reputed to be a moderate drinker who detested the Korean equivalent of geisha parties. Always austere and humorless, he grew even more introspective when his wife Yook Young Soo was killed during an assassination attempt on his own life in 1974. After the nine-day period of national mourning in South Korea, his body will probably be buried next to her grave, in Seoul's National Cemetery...
...toll-free Government locks at Sault Ste. Marie are another disguised subsidy to the steel industry. There should be a toll at the Soo Locks similar to that imposed upon cargo passing through the Panama Canal...
...April 9, 1975, eight alleged members of the People's Revolutionary Party were hanged. The PRP, so far as known, does not exist, but had been invented by the present chief of the KCIA, Shin Jik Soo some ten years earlier to provide a pretext for this kind of action. Two American churchmen, the Rev. George Ogle, a United Methodist, and Father James Sinnott, a Maryknoll priest in Korea since 1960, were expelled from Korea for attempting to refute the government's charges...
...possible witnesses are becoming hard to reach. Kim Sang Keun's erstwhile boss. Major General Kim Yung Hwan, the KCIA chief in the U.S., was reported being held under virtual house arrest in the Korean embassy in Washington. In Seoul, meanwhile, President Park fired KCIA Boss Shin Jik Soo in an apparent attempt to improve relations with Washington...
Through tax incentives and guarantees, South Korea and Taiwan have encouraged local investors to support labor-intensive industries that earn foreign exchange. Two years ago, the lure of higher income prompted Han Chang Soo to quit a secure $120-a-month job with the Korean tax department. He raised $70,000, rented a small plant in Seoul, hired 20 workers, bought some used machinery and began manufacturing large-headed roofing nails; this year his sales-mostly exports to the U.S. -will reach...