Word: yun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other influential woman in Carter's life is his mother, "MISS LILLIAN" (pronounced Lee-yun), a redoubtable personality who would have fascinated William Faulkner and Bertolt Brecht. Says she: "Everything I started, I finished. Jimmy got that from me." Indeed, she bequeathed him his pearly teeth, his smile, his inquisitiveness, his endurance -and, fans say, his compassion...
...resourceful farmer and small businessman, who was strict with his children and devoted to community mores, including racial segregation. But Carter's mother was something else: one of those doughty and durable women that the South produces among both races. It was "Miss Lillian" (pronounced locally Lee-yun) who taught her son to aim for something higher than what Plains could offer. A registered nurse, she supported the family during the Depression when farm prices plummeted. Instead of letting her children talk at mealtimes, she urged them to read at the table. She treated blacks with no less compassion than...
...huge amounts of foreign investment capital, the majority from Japan. Until then, Korea had stagnated under the ineffectual, if autocratic rule of aging President Syngman Rhee. Overthrown in 1960 by spontaneous, nationwide student demonstrations, Rhee was replaced for a brief period by a truly democratic regime led by President Yun Po Sun. But Yun's government proved incapable of maintaining public order in the face of continued demonstrations and the inability of squabbling politicians to decide on a national policy. In 1961 the government was ousted in a bloodless coup by Park, then a general in the Korean army...
Last year Park ordered a massive swoop on his critics throughout the country. No fewer than 168 of them were found guilty of various antigovernment activities. Some were sentenced to death, including former President Yun Po Sun, who was accused of giving money to support student protests. Eventually the death sentences were rescinded and most political prisoners released. But eight men convicted by a military tribunal last year of fomenting anti-Park demonstrations were executed, and the current repression continues unabated. Under his name last month, Park issued Presidential Emergency Decree No. 9, which makes any act of "denying, opposing...
...people have been tried and sentenced to death; 162 others have been given prison sentences ranging from three years to life. Last week alone, Park's military courts sentenced 62 opponents of the regime to stiff prison terms for plotting to overthrow the government. Among them: former President Yun Po Sun, 76, Roman Catholic Bishop Daniel Tji Hak Soun, 53, and the Rev. Park Hyung Kyoo, 51, deeply respected pastor of Seoul's Cheil Presbyterian Church. All accepted the summary sentences with moving dignity. Said Yun: "I ask you one question. Is it a crime to help democracy...