Word: toed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Choi Kyu Hah, 60, the 6-ft, mild-mannered career bureaucrat who served as Foreign Minister and Premier under Park and became Acting President after the killing, was chosen as his country's new head of state by a 96% majority of the 2,560-member electoral...
The election was carried out under Park's less than democratic 1972 constitution, which, among other things, effectively made Park President in perpetuity. Thus critics regarded the vote as just more rigged politics. In Seoul hundreds of youthful dissidents had defied a martial-law ban on demonstrations and staged...
Nonetheless, the choice of Choi held out a realistic hope for gradual liberalization. A Confucian scholar's son who speaks five foreign languages (English, German, French, Japanese and Chinese), Choi describes himself as "a caretaker." What Korea needs most, he has told friends, "is not a hero but a...
While there was wide agreement on the need for change and democratization, there was far less consensus on the timetable and extent of the reforms. Choi and other leaders of the ruling Democratic Republican Party are aiming at a transitional period of as long as two years. Yet opposition figures...
Five years have passed since Portugal threw off half a century of dictatorship, but its road to a stable democracy remains bumpy. After eleven short-lived governments, assorted coups and countercoups, and much maneuvering between various military factions, the country is politically and economically weary. Following the fall of Socialist...