45 Years Ago--May 23, 1980

12·3 The Republic of Korea, which is in chaos due to the internal strife of Yoon Seok-yeol, poses a question to our society. Can the past help the present? Can the dead save the living? Newstapa found the answer to that question by searching the National Archives of Korea for the 1988 National Assembly.

45 Years Ago--May 23, 1980

Former President Gerald Ford, in a Platte County appearance Saturday, described President Jimmy Carter as a man who “tries to make himself a hero out of disasters he has created” and likened him to an arsonist “who starts fires and then tries to be there to put out the flames.” Speaking at a fundraiser for Tom Coleman at the Hilton Airport Plaza Inn, Ford termed Carter’s economic policies a disaster, energy programs “totally misdirected” and for…