Word: dmz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...illegal Mexican aliens who came north from Tijuana. The original ten officers, eight of them Mexican Americans, did not arrest the aliens: the "wetbacks" were useful as cheap labor. Instead, they cracked down on the knife-wielding thieves and rapists who preyed on the meek pollos in the barren DMZ between countries...
NEWS COVERAGE of President Reagan's recent trip to South Korea showed the Chief Executive standing resolutely in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), gazing at the bleak North Korean horizon. Two major topics must have been discussed with South Korean officials during the trip--the Korean Air Lines 007 massacre and the recent murder, almost certainly by North Korean agents, of several high-ranking South Korean ministers and aides in Burms. And of course the overall themes must have been defense and trade. Why these topics have become increasingly important to America, and why the Korean dilemma cannot be solved with...
...said his visit Sunday to the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea was "one of the most unforgettable experiences in my life" Reagan was the first U.S. president to enter the DMZ...
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...Communists hit in a hundred places, from Quang Tri near the DMZ in the north all the way to Duong Dong on the tiny island of Phu Quoc off the Delta coast some 500 miles to the south. No target was too big or too impossible, including Saigon itself and General William Westmoreland's MACV headquarters. South Viet Nam's capital, which even in the worst days of the Indo-China war had never been hit so hard, was turned into a city besieged and sundered by house-to-house fighting...