Word: ahn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...invested heavily in research and development. They have even been able to woo home scientists who had studied and worked abroad. "What goes on around the world is a war of brains. We have no choice but to plunge into it for our own survival and future prosperity," says Ahn Young Ok, 43. A $16,000-a-year DuPont engineer in Delaware, Ahn took a pay cut to return to Seoul, where he is now a top official in the Korean Institute of Science and Technology...
...Athens, a city where "everybody knows everybody else," almost everybody has heard of Brigadier General Dimitrios loannidis (pronounced Ee-o-ahn-ee-dis). A spectral, Beria-like figure who commands Greece's military police force-the feared ESA-loannidis was not seen by the public even at the swearing-in ceremony of Phaedon Gizikis, the colorless army general who is Greece's new President. He did not really have to, since it is loannidis and not Gizikis who runs the junta...