Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extended-while South Korea's healthy economy was spurting ahead at a G.N.P. rate of 8.4% in 1967. Kim and his government failed in their efforts to disrupt the South Korean presidential elections last spring, watched with embarrassment while South Korea sent 46,000 men to fight its Communist allies in Viet Nam. And at 57, Kim is desperately anxious to see unification of North and South Korea realized before he reaches 61, the all-important year in a man's life cycle according to the Korean zodiac...
...back up that arrogance, Kim commands an army of 367,000 men, an air force of 35,000 men and a navy 10,500 seamen strong. In addition, a people's militia of 1,200,000 men and women stands trained and ready to fight. But this muscle has been built at a tremendous cost to the welfare of North Koreans: the military takes some 30% of the nation's budget. With more than 650 planes in its air force, North Korea has an air capability far superior to anything North Viet Nam ever possessed, and North Korean...
Nasser got wind of the plot, however, and ordered Amer and his fellow officers arrested. When the army men prepared to fight rather than go peacefully, Radwan-up to then still unidentified as a conspirator-visited the villa and persuaded them to give up. Though last week's first twelve defendants pleaded not guilty, the trial's final verdict, which may not come for weeks, is practically a foregone conclusion. Two of the three judges are loyal Nasser generals; the third-appointed court chairman-is one of Nasser's vice presidents, Hussein el Shafei...
...Lucas Cranach. And since Daddy was Nazi Reichsmarshal Hermann Goring, the city of Cologne thought it prudent to turn over the priceless painting. Daughter Edda Göring, now 29, has more or less owned the Madonna ever since, though last week she lost another round in her court fight to keep from returning the painting. Edda's lawyers have already slipped and dodged for 18 years, and she has two appeals left...
...week buyer's job at Interstate instead of a position in a law firm that would have paid him $10. At the time, Interstate, which had been formed by a 1928 merger of three Midwest department-store chains, was having a rough time trying to fight its way out of the Depression. And while the company struggled to stay solvent, Cantor rose steadily through a series of management upheavals. He became president in 1952, well aware that he had "a very sick company" on his hands. He prescribed heavy cost cutting and an all-out push into the then...