Word: wook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trustees instead selected David C. Knapp, provost of Cornell University. Knapp will succeed Robert C. Wook, who resigned the UMass presidency in December partially because of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis's budgetary program...
...Koreans' reluctance to allow Park to testify freely was understandable. In testimony before the House committee, Former Korean CIA Chief Kim Hyung Wook told how Park had been set up as the middleman in the U.S. rice trade with Korea by former California Congressman Richard Hanna, who was indicted two weeks ago for seeking bribes, and fraud. According to Kim, Park earned $9 million in the process-and was given full support by the Seoul government for his influence peddling in Congress. Witnesses also provided fresh details of President Park's personal role in the scandal. A former...
...investigators have managed to piece together only a partial picture of his double-dealing after about 1½ years of digging. Some information has come from electronic surveillance of Seoul's Blue House, the executive mansion of the President of South Korea. Another source has been Kim Hyung Wook, who headed the Korean Central Intelligence Agency from 1963 to 1969, and has been a political refugee in the U.S. since 1973. Last week Kim testified before the House Subcommittee on International Organizations, chaired by Democrat Donald M. Fraser...