Word: dae
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...perennial opponent of South Korean dictators, merged his opposition party with that of outgoing President Roh Tae Woo. The move surprised many but proved to be politically savvy. Running as the candidate of the predominant Democratic Liberal Party, Kim beat his longtime rival, the fiery populist Kim Dae Jung, 67, by 42% to 34%. He was helped by the poor showing of Chung Ju Yung, 77, the former chairman of the Hyundai conglomerate and his main competitor among conservative and middle-class voters, who received only 16% of the vote. Kim, campaigning for "change with stability," * was the safe choice...
THOUGH HE HAS AGREED WITH the incumbent about the need to keep at least 100,000 U.S. troops in Europe, moreover, Clinton has been suspected of contemplating a revival of Carter's plan to bring the boys home from South Korea. On Oct. 20, Seoul opposition leader Kim Dae Jung released a letter to him in which Clinton promised to preserve the level of U.S. troops in the $ country. Some Washington strategic-affairs experts remain uncertain, however. A sharp reduction of American forces in Korea would be sure to propel Asians, already jittery about possible transpacific trade reprisals, into desperate...
...public mind far beyond their numbers (250,000 out of a 17.5 million population). Examples of a burgeoning Aboriginal presence in Australian literature and music include Sally Morgan's 1987 autobiography, My Place, which chronicled a woman's discovery of her black identity; the 1990 musical Bran Nue Dae by Jimmy Chi, an Aborigine who also claims Japanese, Chinese and Scottish strains of descent; and the rock band Yothu Yindi. There may be a parallel between the Aboriginal Renaissance and a recent surge in white Australian self-discovery. For the first time, archives across the country are besieged by people...
...seemed a straightforward assignment for the high-tech wizards in naval intelligence. They were alerted that the North Korean freighter Dae Hung Ho had sailed with a reputed cargo of Scud-C ballistic missiles bound ultimately for Syria, and they were told to track it. Last week an eager faction in the National Security Council and the State Department leaked word that the U.S. was determined to intercept the freighter and search its hold as it made its way from the Indian Ocean toward the Persian Gulf, where U.S. naval vessels were patrolling to enforce the U.N. embargo against Iraq...
...embarrassment -- to little avail. "There are a lot of arms sales going on in the world that we don't like," he told reporters, "but that doesn't mean we have the legal authority to stop them." Nonetheless, Williams said, the Navy made every effort to track the Dae Hung Ho. "It would have been nice to have found it," he added...