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...ruthless campaign, Park recently seized Yun Po Sun, 76, South Korea's President for nearly two years after the overthrow of Syngman Rhee in 1960. The charge against Yun was that he had contributed $1,000 to antigovernment student demonstrators. "The money was intended to revive democracy in Korea," admitted Yun, who refused to recant. If convicted, he could receive the death penalty...
...Gaulle set up the school mainly to bring more professionalism and less social privilege to France's grand corps of administrators-until then the preserve of an elite drawn largely from upper-class products of Paris' celebrated Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques ("Sciences Po"). Budding bureaucrats, De Gaulle felt, should also have a broader background in legal, economic and administrative affairs than they could get at Sciences Po...
...August 1950, Gen. Liu po-ch'eng moved the troops of his Southwest Military Commission into Tibet to liberate the territory which had evaded Chinese authority since the beginning of the Republic. The tenth Panchen Lama, bolstered by the Nationalists who too had always claimed the right to Chinese authority in the region, voiced his whole-hearted support for the move. Meanwhile, Tibet unsuccessfully appealed for intercession by the United Nations. In 1951, the regime paid lip service to its earlier pledges to Tibet's right to regional autonomy. But between 1952 and 1958, the Chinese fought a revolt...
...markets. The Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers and the networks are offering only .6%. With the costs of developing the markets estimated in the millions of dollars, the studios argue that the invesment would hardly be worth it if they must share any larger portion of the po- tential profits with the writers- particularly since no one really knows how big or small those profits will...
...Borges, the researcher becomes an accomplice to the fiction; in the Bertolucci adaptation, he becomes a vic tim of it. Borges' "oppressed and stubborn country" becomes Tara, a fictional village in the Po Valley, a place of old men and tenacious memories. The great-grandfather becomes a father...