Word: woos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Uncle Barhen was shocked when the Indonesian government informed him that the 2,000,000 Chinese in Indonesia had until the end of 1951 to decide whether or not they wanted to become Indonesian citizens. Uncle Barhen set out to woo his countrymen. But the ambassador was handicapped by a lack of diplomatic dignity and aplomb...
...apathy extends to the youth-the sought-after darlings whom the Tito Reds woo with special treatment and propaganda. I went to a youth demonstration to celebrate the partial completion of dormitories for Belgrade's new University City on the Zemun Marshes. Thousands of teen-agers billed as students had worked here for months in "Voluntary Labor Brigades." With the major construction done (though floors and windows were not in), the volunteers had been summoned to a monster rally...
...chief of the green hatbands was Park II Woo, a tall man who wore his hair long in the fashion that Koreans call a "high collar cut." Kim II Sung and Park II Woo lived in downtown Pyongyang for a while, but soon they moved up into Ocean Village, the old Presbyterian missionary compound. Here their American-style red brick houses were next door to the residence of General Terenty Shtykov, who called himself the Soviet ambassador but was, in fact, Russian governor of North Korea. This move did not escape the attention of Pyongyang's 50,000 Christians...
Elder La and his friends, however, were beginning to take a lot more interest in the activities of the men in the green hatbands. As chief of the national police, Park II Woo had abolished Pyongyang's good Chinese restaurants and kesan (geisha) houses. As Minister of the Interior, he dealt with the city's private schools, factories and stores. He also found time to take note of some of Elder La's Christian colleagues...
Communists. "These Russians," he repeats, "gave the people something to do." While Park II Woo's security police were busy pumping bullets into the necks of Pyongyang's leading Christian "white ones," his People's Building Administration was busy throwing up large, Russian-style housing developments for Communist Party members. Between 1947 and 1950 the price of rice in Pyongyang almost quadrupled. "Every time the price of rice went up another ten won," said a Pyongyang "radish" last week, "the government would announce a new housing project, a new hospital plan or a new wing...