Word: firstness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, Irving and Annette Herman drove around Bridgeport, Conn., in cars whose license plates bore the first two letters of each of their names: IRAN...
...past. In those decade-long proceedings, Europe was always excluded, and Europeans felt that their own security was being settled over their heads and perhaps even bargained away. This time the U.S. will still do the bargaining, but will share the decision making with its European allies for the first time. For the U.S. as well as for Western Europe, this change will intro duce a whole new era of strategic and political cooperation...
...have been allowed to visit Cambodia since the Vietnamese occupation. Last month, however, French Photojournalist Jean-Claude Labbe was permitted to make an unprecedented four-week tour of the country. Traveling by motorcycle and by car, without escort except for a 20-mile stretch near the Thai border, Labbe first rode from Sai- Saigon to Phnom-Penh, where he shot pictures of the devastated Cambodian capital beginning to stir to life again amid the rubble of war. He then drove along Cambodia's main arteries, Highways 5 and 6, visiting twelve provinces in a journey that totaled...
...first it seemed to be a case of delayed judicial prosecution. General Chung, a political moderate with an impeccable military record, was long rumored to have been involved in plans against Park's authoritarian rule. As dis closed by confidential sources to TIME five weeks ago, Chung was alleged to have supported the plot against Park hatched by Korean Central Intelligence Agency Chief Kim Jae Kyu-but he had not bargained on assassination (TIME...
...development mapped out by President Choi Kyu Hah gone too far to suit the young generals? Probably. One ranking government official in Seoul noted last week that the young generals had been "furious about the way democratization had been moving ahead." TIME learned last week that General Chun had first secretly consulted a handful of young fellow generals in sympathy with his aim. He discreetly assembled portions of at least two divisions for the arrest. Some units even seem to have left front-line positions on the demilitarized zone to come 30 miles to the fringes of Seoul. The action...