Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swift completion of the trial reflected the sense of urgency on the part of Park's elected successor, Choi Kyu Hah, to try to keep the country on the path to normality after the trauma of the assassination. Yet Choi himself, who was formally inaugurated as President last week, the day after the Kim verdict, had far more on his mind than retribution for Park's slaying. For one thing, Seoul was still swirling with apprehensions in the wake of the stunning, couplike arrest of the former martial law commander, General Chung Seung Hwa, and a dozen other...
...American era. Yet Taiwan has demonstrated a robust self-reliance during the past year, and its relationship with Washington has changed far more in form than in substance. Though the formal U.S. presence is gone and its last legal vestige, the Mutual Defense Treaty, is due to expire next week, other links are thicker than ever. "Both sides," says an American resident in Taiwan, "are playing the new game to the hilt...
...100th anniversary of Stalin's birth last week, Pravda ran a major editorial that mentioned some of Stalin's crimes, including "serious violations of Soviet legality and wholesale reprisals." As a result, the paper said, "many distinguished Communist Party and government leaders, high-ranking military commanders, honest Communists and nonParty people had suffered, though they were innocent." But since Stalin's death, the Party had "resolutely eradicated the consequences of the cult of personality." Still, Pravda called Stalin a "distinguished leader" who had supplied a "need for centralized leadership, iron discipline and extreme vigilance" during most...
Still, Stalin's memory is alive in his native Georgia. Last week his centenary was celebrated by thousands of Georgians who had gathered in Gori, the dictator's home town. Carrying carnations, chrysanthemums and portraits of Stalin, they danced through the streets to the music of five marching bands. Others crowded into the newly refurbished Stalin museum in Gori, or gazed reverently at his statue atop a 10-ft. pedestal in Gori's main square-one of the last remaining statues of the dictator in the Soviet Union...
...going for sums that would boggle the I of Claudius. Ars gratia auctionis. Throughout the U.S. and the rest of the West, once listless salesrooms thrum with auctiophiliacs in search of a piece of the past; the top firms hold several simultaneous sales a day six days a week. In 1979 Sotheby's and Christie's, the two London-based giants of the international fine arts auction business, together have netted $702 million worldwide. Nor does anyone expect recession to cool the fever. Some indicators...