Word: toed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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At the housing compound, it turned out, Chung units offered only moderate resistance, which Chun's forces easily contained. Then Chun and his units moved on to the Defense Ministry. After that second clash with units loyal to the other detained generals, Chun successfully emerged with Defense Minister Ro...
Seoul's 600,000-man armed forces were promptly placed on full alert, and tanks took up positions at major government buildings. The Carter Administration expressed alarm over the developments. "It's a power play, the three stars against the four stars," said a high official. U.S. Ambassador...
State Department specialists caution that it is too early to judge what kind of relationship will be struck between military and civilian forces. "The ominous factor is the sudden politicization of the army," explains a worried diplomat. "We had seen an orderly movement to a democratic system, but the use...
British imperial rule was temporarily brought back to Africa last week by a tall, well-fleshed Englishman named Christopher Soames. A police band played God Save the Queen as the 59-year-old diplomat, a son-in-law of Winston Churchill, stepped briskly from his Royal Air Force VC10 onto...
Hours earlier, the Parliament of Zimbabwe Rhodesia had met for the last time to rescind former Prime Minister Ian Smith's 1965 Unilateral Declaration of Independence and return the colony to British sovereignty under its former name of Southern Rhodesia. The Union Jack will not wave over Salisbury for...