Word: burma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lewis vehemently denied that the money was being funneled to the South Korean government as a bribe to win contracts for F-16 fighters. The chairman rejected a charge made by Veliotis that he had received permission from Lewis to go after contracts to sell natural-gas tankers to Burma and Indonesia by offering kickbacks of $1 million a ship. "I have absolutely no knowledge of that," Lewis said...
...arrival procedures. A U.S. diplomat in Seoul said later that the South Koreans had "changed the plan several times, the last time being less than 30 minutes before Kim's plane arrived." The South Koreans are highly security conscious, all the more so since the 1983 incident in Rangoon, Burma, when several South Korean Cabinet ministers were killed by a bomb supposedly set by agents from Communist North Korea. Added to that was the guards' obvious animosity toward Kim. Explaining that Kim would not be passing through a VIP area at the airport, one agent told reporters bluntly...
...What will happen in the Philippines if the ailing Marcos should die or be forced out of office? Will Deng Xiaoping, the 80-year-old Chinese leader, live long enough to solidify his reforms? Will the North Korean terrorists who killed 16 South Korean officials in a bombing in Burma last year strike again...
...expect the aid to be delivered. But there were signs that the government in Pyongyang really may be trying to improve its relations with Seoul, even if only slightly. The North Koreans are still trying to undo the damage caused by their involvement in the bomb blast in Burma last year that killed 17 visiting South Koreans, many of them top officials, but missed the most obvious target, South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan. Overlooking such examples of past hatreds, the two sides decided to schedule aid talks for this week in Panmunjom, in the Demilitarized Zone that divides...
...trouble with "covering" the Olympics was that 10,000 journalists were doing the same thing. Anyone in Los Angeles with a slightly glazed look for the past two weeks was a writer trying to cook up an original idea. When the country of Burma walked into the Coliseum with a team that consisted of only one member (a boxer named Zaw Latt), 7,000 pencils scribbled on pads that Zaw Latt would make an interesting feature. When George Vecsey of the New York Times wrote a fine story about what he described as the "Burma team" (the Burma team lost...