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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Minh City (Saigon), 130 miles away. The plane was met by representatives of the International Red Cross and of UNICEF. At first it was not clear how the unloading was to be done. Then emerged a ragged line of Cambodian men, scarves around their heads, guarded by two soldiers...
Their driver was Cambodian, but one of the two escorting soldiers was Vietnamese. "The place seemed completely deserted and ruined," Philips recalled. "There were a few people squatting on the sidewalks heating food or water in tin cans over a wood fire. Others, many in rags, were pecking about in the gutted interiors of houses. Everyone seemed to be completely aimless, moving with no sense of purpose. The only sign of transportation we saw was two donkey carts...
...were willing to express comparable confidence about the country's political future. The question of succession was still unanswered. Acting President Choi Kyu Hah, 60, plunged into interminable rounds of talks with military leaders and key ministers, reportedly in search of a succession formula. The two main contenders for the presidency, former Premiers Kim Jong Pil, 53, and Chung II Kwon, 61, were believed to be trying to drum up support, but thus far strictly behind the scenes...
...report also contained a new disclosure about Park's final moments. It revealed that two women, who were not identified, had also been present at the dinner where Park was slain and had tried to help the dying President. "Are you all right, Your Excellency?" one of them asked after he was shot and fell to the floor. "I am all right," he is said to have replied. They were his last words...
When the Diet finally reassembled last week, it faced a situation unprecedented in Japan's 33-year postwar parliamentary history: two candidates from the same party, Ohira and Fukuda, vying for the premiership. Elected on the second ballot by a 17-vote margin, Ohira owed his victory to the support of a conservative breakaway party, the New Liberal Club. The win did little to enhance Ohira's stature, either in the Diet or in his own party. Fumed one L.D.P. member: "At first, I didn't think he should resign, but later I decided he should...