Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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How can the U.S. and the Western European allies even think of accepting the barbaric Khmer Rouge [March 2] in the U.N.? Unless the resistance groups in Cambodia disavow the Khmer Rouge, there is no excuse for the U.S. to give them any support, not even moral. The regime now...
That caveat is echoed with some passion in Seoul and Jakarta. The South Koreans and most Southeast Asians are glad to see the Japanese openly debating the expansion of forces to defend their home islands and territorial waters, but no one in East Asia, including the Japanese, wants the U.S...
Profitability is the bottom line of that performance. The Coop's sales last year totaled more than $37 million, and its members received a 9.5-per-cent rebate on their purchases. Although the cooperative society must provide this patronage refund to its members, it is entitled to invest its profits...
In the cacaphony, the clash of old and new, of Islamic and Western ways, is harsh and sometimes bizarre. A $500 million 200-unit apartment complex in Jidda has yet to be occupied nearly a year after completion, because religious conservatives objected to the lack of separate elevators for women...
The retrenchment came as no surprise to foreign companies that in the past month alone have had Peking cancel or suspend five major projects worth $2.5 billion. Most seriously affected are Japanese and West German firms that rushed into the Chinese market in 1978 and 1979, at the outset of...