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...President is sworn in-as the generals keep watch...
...surface, Choi continued to receive the support of the officialdom, including the military, and high marks from most observers. His Cabinet, sworn in before his own inauguration, seemed to be both neutral and competent. Selected as Prime Minister was Shin Hyon Hwack, a technocrat and former economic planning chief. The new Defense Minister was General Choo Young Bok, known as "Tiger Choo" to American officers in Seoul, and, curiously, the first South Korean Defense Minister with a knowledge of English good enough for direct communication with U.S. commanders. According to President Choi's earlier promise, the newly installed Cabinet...
Guevara, a political moderate who once served as Bolivia's Ambassador to the United Nations, seemed doomed from the moment he was sworn in three months ago. Various plotters began planning at least three separate coups after Bolivia's Congress chose Guevara to serve as interim President until an election next May. Natusch, 46, the commander of the military training school, struck first. Backed by junior officers, he dispatched a force to surround the palace, dissolved Congress and declared himself President...
...names were gathered during a six-month Star investigation that included interviews with some 100 madams, prostitutes and witnesses. In assembling its list, the paper accumulated canceled checks, hotel records and sworn statements verified by polygraph tests. The purpose, Star Editor Stephen Isaacs wrote in a front-page apologia, was "to expose the hypocrisy of public persons performing illegal acts that they themselves have made illegal or have jurisdiction over...
...White House has accused them of concocting false charges against Jordan in order to bargain for leniency. Landau, who said he had met Jordan at various receptions and dinners, has no such obvious ax to grind, though he is a crony of Rubell's. Said he, in a sworn statement given...