Word: sons
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Actress Mary Tyler Moore loses her son...
...film Ordinary People, she plays the part of an excessively reserved and poised matron who proves incapable of helping her 18-year-old son, who has attempted suicide. After the movie was released last month, Actress Mary Tyler Moore, 42, acknowledged that she prepared for the part by drawing on her experiences in raising her own son from her first marriage, Richard Carlton Meeker Jr., 24. Said she: "I was kind of a perfectionist mother, and I demanded a lot of him. I think I was responsible for a lot of alienation. I brought some of that to the part...
...son also rises
...little is known about the second son of North Korean President Kim II Sung that Westerners are not sure about even the facts of his birth. Kim Jong II is thought to have been born in February 1941, somewhere in the Soviet Union, to Kim II Sung's first wife. According to the best surmise, he attended East Germany's air academy. He may have graduated with an economics degree from Pyongyang's Kim II Sung University about 1965. In the early 1970s, Japanese visitors were told that he was involved in the "three-revolution" movement...
...emergence into party leadership? Observers could only guess. Many noticed that Kim II Sung's younger brother, Kim Yong Ju, once considered a possible successor, was nowhere evident on party rosters. One guess was that Kim Yong Ju had lost out to his nephew, the President's son, in an internal party struggle...