Word: talking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During his first 2½-hour talk with Park, Carter broached the delicate topic of human rights, an area in which South Korea has been severely criticized. At a state dinner hosted by the South Korean President, Carter praised the country's economic progress but added that "this achievement can be matched by similar progress through the realization of basic human aspirations in political and human rights." Under a series of draconian "emergency decrees" enacted in the early 1970s in the name of national security, the Korean government has sweeping powers of arrest, detention, search and seizure. Universities, radio...
...complain that the new liberty was mere window dressing for the two-day Carter visit. Nevertheless, Kim Young Sam, newly elected leader of the New Democratic Party, has taken advantage of the respite to demand the complete restoration of democracy, and has said that he would be willing to talk with North Korea's dictator Kim II Sung about reunification. Sums up one Washington specialist: "The oppressive machinery is still there, but it has been applied much less in recent years...
...pronouncement worthy of Orwell's Ministry of Truth. Already, there was talk of CLO factors (clothing insulation value) and acclimatization periods. In this case, though, the agency involved was the Department of Energy and the proposed effective date 1979, not 1984. Part of President Carter's stand-by energy-conservation measure approved by Congress last May, the plan in question would require that thermostats in nonresidential buildings be set no lower than 80° F in the summer and no higher than 65° F in the winter, and that hot water settings be turned down...
...LIKE conducting a battle campaign--you find the grunts, the students in the front lines....then you talk with the sergeants (grad students), then the junior officers (academic advisors). Finally, when I had my basic research in hand, I would go to the general, the president, and ask for an overview...
...shrouded in mist, as the cops awaited the onslaught to come. "Wait til you see the whites of their eyes," advised one, grinning, continuing the lookout. Despite the battlefield small-talk and virtual siege-mentality that permeated the Shoreham, N.Y., nuclear power plant, June 3 was a day for handcuffs made of clear plastic rather than sharp metal, for mostly friendly rapport between arresters and arrestees that one demonstrator called "surreal," for a day of protest that mixed earnestness and euphoria but, except for one incident of dubious origin, excluded confrontation...