The killing of President Park raises questions and tensions It was one of the most bizarre killings of a head of state in history. Late last week President Park Chung Hee, 61, strongman ruler of the Republic of South Korea since 1961, was shot at a dinner party by the chief of his own intelligence service in what was first described by a government spokesman as an “accident.” Later, officials revealed that it was a well-planned assassination
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Yemen, Trying to Oust Saleh, Has Military and Economy Problems
Yemen’s revolution has been a slow-burning one.
The Man with the Golden Gut
From his office on the 38th floor of the ABC building in Manhattan, Fred Silverman can peer into the office of CBS President Robert Wussler, just across 53rd Street. Occasionally the two men wave at each other from the heights, like rival aviators saluting before a dogfight
Following the Leader
It’s important for the president of the United States to get as much information from as many sources as possible, but Obama may be overdoing it.
Drug Nets
Stepping up the attackSometimes it seems that success fathers its own problems.
South Africa No Easy Walk to Freedom
The sentence in the courtroom that day in June 1964 was life in prison. The verdict of history will hardly judge Nelson Mandela a common criminal
Movie Monarch
Last week a nervous little man grinned his twisted grin in the grounds of White Pine Camp.
2-min Bio: Valerie Jarrett
Chicago businesswoman Valerie Jarrett has earned all sorts of nicknames as an aide to President-elect Barack Obama — from “First Friend” to “big sister” to “the other half of Obama’s brain.” As co-chair of his transition team, Jarrett has spent the past week denying rumors, parsing policy changes and insisting that she doesn’t know where she’ll end up in the new administration
Africa: the Scramble for Survival
The Great Rift Valley can be seen from space. It shears down the eastern shoulder of Africa, a vast geological gash, one of the mysteries of the continent’s power
Syria’s Assad Bashes Heads, Hoping His Regime’s Strategic Importance Buys It a Pass
Location, in real estate and sometimes in politics, is everything.