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Ever since he rode to power in 1961 as head of a military junta, South Korea's President Park Chung Hee has done his best to disprove that adage -primarily by trying to suppress all political opposition. The press has been gagged, the National Assembly turned into a rubber-stamp parliament, and political rallies have been banned (except those approved by the government). Despite these and other unpopular measures-including the enlarging of South Korea's feared secret police, which is called the CIA - opposition persists...
...circumstances that led to Gizikis's coup give it extraordinary significance. What finally convinced right-wing officers dismayed by even Papadopoulos's sham democracy that Greece needed a change of government was the old government's inability to prevent or even effectively suppress last week's uprising, in which thousands of students and workers fought Greek police and American tanks, demanding a restoration of democracy and freedom. The demonstrators' heroism brought down one dictatorship; because of this week's instability, and the uncertainty about the new government's policy, there's at least some possibility that Greece will become more...
...moved quickly and adroitly to consolidate his relations with Argentina's generals. The separate commands of the armed forces were abolished shortly before the inaugural. Perón now is in direct command of the entire military, a position that should allow him to suppress any potential revolt before it gets very far. He also launched "Operation Dorrego," a flood-relief project in which army units worked with Peronist youth to reclaim lands ruined by disastrous floods earlier this year. Significantly, a "provisional council" has been set up and is charged with "ideological purification" of the Justicialist Party. What...
...turned into the foundation of Dart Industries. That did not prevent him from selling off the Rexall stores piecemeal, until today there are only a dozen left. In 1947, Justin Dart advanced $7,000 out of his own pocket to a doctor who was working on a preparation to suppress high blood pressure; the drug turned into a steady though small seller and started Dart Industries' Riker Laboratories ethical-drug operation. But in 1970, he sold Riker Laboratories to the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. for 3M stock worth a handsome $150 million. Dart has since sold most...
They injected alcohol directly into Mrs. Stanek's bloodstream-to act as a muscle relaxant and suppress uterine contractions-and they left a bottle of vodka on her bedside table with instructions to drink three ounces a day. When Mrs. Stanek, who was later moved to Colorado General Hospital because of its high-risk nursery facilities, went into labor, she was only seven weeks ahead of her due date...