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...President has almost dictatorial powers, and though Park's Democratic-Republican Party garnered only 34% of the vote in the National Assembly elections, the opposition was so split that the D.R.P. has a whopping, 45-seat parliamentary plurality. Though Park pleaded for national unity, Opposition Leader Yun Po Sun, who barely lost the presidential election, boycotted the Assembly's opening session, and other dissident Assemblymen threatened to investigate the corruption prevalent under Park's military junta...
...jargon that often lends heroic titles to mundane party functionaries, hoping to inspire them. A group of civil servants is likened to eagles, and Mrozek takes the elevation literally. Warsaw clerks suddenly begin flying around their offices. They soar away from their desks, take to the mountains in southern Po land, and even begin carrying off lambs. Lead weights, which authorities cagily attached to their shoes, did no good, Mrozek records with relish-"they escaped in their socks...
...ones bring out the best in her. Her extravaganzas are the talk of the Western world-a sunset cruise down the Potomac for 138, a floodlit lawn party at Mount Vernon, a roomtul of Nobel laureates waltzing over the parquet White House floors to the tem po of the Air Force's Strolling Strings...
There was a tentative silence as if everyone were trying it out just to see how it sounded. Then next door to me, another white worker called out in the slow sing-talking rhythms of a black preacher: "White po-licel Listen now! I want you to hear me, white law-men! You better know, yes you better know that the white man's day is almost over! The days of Uncle Tom and Mr. Charlie, white po-lice, the days of lynchin' an' moanin' an' runnin' an' hidin', they near an' end. An' the end is so close...
...Korean standards, the opposition, though badly divided, was remarkably uninhibited. Large crowds rallied to hear Park's chief challenger, ex-President Yun Po Sun, an archaeologist who resigned ten months after Park seized power in 1961, and ex-Premier Huh Chung, a scholarly ex-journalist. They hit out at Park's arbitrary rule and the country's economic plight, openly revived an old charge that he had once flirted with Communism.* Park accused his foes of "McCarthyism...