Word: unificationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The South Korean presidential race was not exactly a cliffhanger. Indeed, Chun Doo Hwan, 49, the military strongman, ordered construction to begin on his inaugural stand before the election was even announced. Then last week the National Conference for Unification, the rubber-stamp electoral college, convened in Seoul's...
Then last month the church really caused a furor by pulling off a slick real estate coup to obtain the Cardinal Gushing Villa, a 30-room retreat house, from the Daughters of Mary of the Immaculate Conception, a Connecticut-based order of nuns. The sisters were known to have been...
WANT! One night rocks were tossed through the windows of the lobster plant. Townspeople began signing an "open letter" to the Unification Church demanding a full explanation of its plans.
Leaders of the predominantly Catholic Republic of Ireland, ever faithful to their goal of Irish unity, also reacted cautiously to the limited home-rule plan. An official statement from Dublin welcomed the discussion of "possible solutions" but insisted on "closer political cooperation between the British and Irish governments" on the...
Most of Ulster's Protestants reject unification. Their longstanding distrust of the Catholic South has been intensified by continuing hit-and-run raids across the long, largely open border by Provisional Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.) terrorists based in the Republic. In the border area of Newtownbutler alone, 51 Protestants...