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Dubbed Sunflake City with its part-sun and part-snowflake emblem. Grand forks lays claim to some of the richest agricultural soil in the world. The terrain's predominantly agricultural setting is responsible for the city's relatively miniscule 5.8 percent unemployment rate. "We really have no major industries aside from agriculture," Haggerty says...
None of the stories I have read about arms control affected me as did yours with its picture of the Kremlin façade. The Soviet hammer and sickle are a familiar sight, but I have never seen the emblem superimposed on the globe. That symbol evoked all the long-forgotten cold war fanaticism about Soviet world domination...
...prickly relationship began to change almost as soon as Nakasone landed at Seoul's Kimpo Airport. For the first time since 1945, the Japanese Rising Sun flag was hoisted alongside South Korea's white, red, blue and black emblem atop the city's squat Capitol Building. Nakasone pledged that his country would grant $4 billion in preferential aid to South Korea and declared that "my visit may mark the beginning of a new and vital stage in our relationship." Replied Chun: "Your visit is a historic, indeed monumental, milestone in our relations." From Washington's point...
...when oil prices dropped and interest rates shot up, Mexicans rushed to trade their pesos for more stable dollars, forcing a devaluation. In the ceremony at the Congress of the Union hall last week, Lopez Portillo bequeathed to his successor the green, white and red sash that is the emblem of office. He also left a foreign debt of $80 billion and not enough money even to meet the interest payments...
...sunny, spring afternoon a few weeks later, holed up in a barn near Munich. Pisar peered through it crack and saw an enormous tank lumbering towards him. Instead of the hateful swastika, he saw an unfamiliar emblem: a small five-pointed white star. "Suddenly the realization flooded my mind that I was looking at freedom, the insignia of the American army. "Pisar recalls I ran towards it through the German machine-gun fire, and as a big Black G. I climbed out, swearing at me. I yelled Heil Roosevelt." He understood. He motioned me to move through the roof...