Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tokyo Kidnapping. Park used his enhanced powers to crack down even harder on his political opposition. Kim Dae Jung, who continued hyperbolically to brand Park an "Asiatic edition of Hitler," was abducted in broad daylight by the K.C.I.A. from a hotel room in Tokyo and spirited back to Seoul. Kim's kidnaping infuriated the Japanese, whose sovereignty had been crassly violated...
...account for roughly one-third of the 42,000 U.S. servicemen still stationed in South Korea. Strung out across 159 installations, exposed to sub-zero cold and vulnerable to blitz attack from crack North Korean units, they are probably the toughest, best-trained and most combat-ready American forces anywhere. They are also among the most important politically. On the one hand, Pyongyang views them as the major obstacle to its unifying the Korean peninsula under Communist rule; on the other, Seoul sees the American presence (although reduced considerably from its 1953 peak of 325,000 men) as both...
Green Safe. People also come to Nevada to steal from Greenspun. In 1971 he told a White House aide that he knew about a $100,000 Nixon campaign contribution from Howard Hughes. Not long after, the White House plumbers apparently tried to crack the green Meilink safe in Greenspun's office. After that break-in was disclosed in the Nixon tape transcripts last year, Greenspun became the only journalist to testify before the Senate Watergate committee. The object of the breakin, he theorizes, was probably a sheaf of handwritten memos from Howard Hughes to a subordinate. Yet Greenspun mysteriously...
...dropped from 12% in 1974 to 3.7% in March; that may have been a fluke, but Eckstein expects it to average 4% to 6% for all of 1976. Sprinkel, however, is concerned that a stepped-up recovery would send inflation up again in 1977, forcing the Goveminent to crack down on demand; that would cause production to fall and unemployment to rise once more...
...noisiest and most simple-minded of all the current Kalashnikov operas. The author is an Israeli billed as a ";former undercover agent." The cover of the Kuwait book, which is about an attack on a Black September training camp, exactly describes the product: "Timebomb excitement! Nonstop action! The crack Israeli Secret Service v. the International Sky Terrorists." These two wild Easterns are part of an Arvay series. At least three more such thunderations are threatened in fiscal...