Word: yun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...landed last April were sentenced to death and quickly executed; nine others got 30-year sentences. Technically, the 14 were tried for crimes they committed before the invasion. Ramon Calvino, a police corporal during the regime of Dictator Fulgencio Batista, was accused of killing and torturing prisoners: George King Yun, was accused of killing a port guard last year while he was stealing a boat. Nine hours after the trials began, verdicts were in, sentences pronounced, and appeals denied...
...Chang's bold economic plans made little progress. Heedless of the damage they were doing to South Korea's frail democracy, politicians selfishly fought for personal gain. Seoul's irresponsible newspapers exulted in their new freedom by jabbing at Premier Chang on every issue. President Posun Yun, supposedly a figurehead outside the political maelstrom, sniped openly at the struggling Premier...
...turned up at the State Council building to surrender to General Chang. Then he went before the press to announce that he and his Cabinet had resigned, appealed to the nation to stand behind the new military regime. After the Premier's resignation came that of President Yun himself, who, following Korea's tradition of repentance after defeat, declared: "I regret that I made so little contribution to the nation that a military revolution has occurred ... I feel nothing but sorrow." But next day, the generals talked him into staying...
...root of Chang's trouble lay the division of his own Democratic Party into "old" and "new" factions. Furious at his failure to win the premiership away from Chang. Old Democratic Leader Kim Do Yun declared that any member of his faction who joined Chang's Cabinet would be considered a turncoat Result was that although Chang offered Cabinet jobs to five Old Democrats, only one-Transportation Minister Chung Hun Joo-accepted...
Under Korea's new constitution, Yun's job will be largely ceremonial, but it does give him the right to nominate the Premier, subject to confirmation by the Assembly's lower house. With more than 2,000,000 unemployed and an empty treasury, South Korea is in a bad way, and President Yun would be well advised, remarked one cynical Seoul politician last week, "to nominate his worst political enemy" for Premier...