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...country's political future. The question of succession was still unanswered. Acting President Choi Kyu Hah, 60, plunged into interminable rounds of talks with military leaders and key ministers, reportedly in search of a succession formula. The two main contenders for the presidency, former Premiers Kim Jong Pil, 53, and Chung II Kwon, 61, were believed to be trying to drum up support, but thus far strictly behind the scenes...
...National Assembly and exercise emergency powers to detain his political opponents. It was not determined what mechanism for forming a government might replace the constitution, or how its abrogation would affect the political fortunes of the two most likely candidates to succeed Park. One was Kim Jong Pil, 53, a National Assembly member who helped organize Park's 1961 coup and who subsequently became the first director of the KCIA; the other was Chung II Kwon, 61, a holdover from the Syngman Rhee government, who served from 1964 to 1970 as Park's Premier...
...name on many tongues is Kim Jong Pil, 53, the first director of the KCIA and the husband of Park's niece...
Flying Down to Rio is more than an old movie to Singer-Actress Raquel Welch, 33. It's becoming a habit. During her nightclub tour of South America in February, Raquel showed up at Rio's carnival on the elbow of Paulo Pil-la, 32, a former public relations man. Recently she ventured south again to spend eight days with Paulo in Buzios, a few more in Petrdpolis, followed by a final fling on the Copacabana. Raquel, said observers, appeared to be apaixonada. In rough Portuguese, that means bonkers about Pilla. The twosome evaded publicity until their last...
Premier Kim Chong Pil defends these tough measures: "Our cardinal problem is survival. Freedom to the point of license hurts us. The critics who talk about the lack of freedom here would be the same ones who, if we were overrun, would say: 'Those stupid Koreans, they couldn't prepare themselves to stand up against the North.' " In an important but limited sense, the Premier is correct. Seoul's most important weapon against the North is the passionate anti-Communism that unites South Korea's 33.5 million people. But there is probably a limit...