Word: east
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Middle East captures the attention of Americans like no other region of the world. It fascinates, enthralls, captivates...
...Solidarity-led coalition has alarmed the Soviet Union and would be the first non-communist government in the East bloc since the late 1940s...
PROFILE: Finding drama in collisions of East and West...
...film companies have bid for the rights. Says Hwang: "I guess the play is the thinking person's Fatal Attraction, a reflection of the fear between men and women and a kind of intellectual striptease. It's also about the West's fear of how its relationship with the East is changing. Sophisticated American whites realize their group is in the process of changing from an outright majority to just a plurality in the U.S., and are beginning to be ready to hear what the rest of us think...
...elder Hwang, by then a C.P.A., launched Far East National Bank, which specialized in loans to Asian immigrants and which now has four branches in California. Two years after the bank opened, he was kidnaped for ransom, then released within a few hours after the money was taken. Says the son: "I was in college at the time and did not hear about it until the crisis was over. The case was never solved, and some people have suggested that my father staged the episode as a publicity stunt. My father may be a little weird...