Word: hards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...using Japan as a model. In this he succeeded. Since 1961, South Korea's per capita income has risen from $85 a year to around $1,500. South Korea now has a gross national product of some $50 billion (four times that of North Korea), and is a hard-bargaining rival to Japan in exports of steel, ships and textiles. New superhighways cut through the countryside; high-rise offices and apartments form towering sky lines in Korean cities. Rare among developing societies, South Korea has steered development capital to the countryside, so that rural Koreans live marginally better than...
Perhaps the only mystery in the Dayan affair was why he remained in the Begin government as long as he did. Dayan had made no secret of the fact that he disagreed with Begin's hard-line policy in dealing with the Palestinians. He genuinely want ed to reach some kind of agreement with the Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza over their future relations with Israel (see box); Begin seemed content to let the status quo drift on forever. Because of this disagreement, Dayan refused to head the Israeli delegation in the autonomy talks...
...moment, Washington was being careful not to respond with a hard-sell counteroffensive of its own. Rather, at the December NATO meeting the allies also plan to introduce an arms-control proposal of their own for limiting medium-range weapons. The judgment of the State Department is to watch the strident Soviet campaign, at least for the time being. Whatever the problems the NATO allies may have with their divided or left-leaning parliaments, the prevailing West European attitude toward the Soviets is believed to have hardened in the past two years. ''So far the Europeans have reacted...
...Western standards, the crimes were relatively minor ones: pimping, consorting with prostitutes, violating customs laws. But the sentences meted out to the 27 prisoners ranged from five to 15 lashes, plus prison terms at hard labor. In preparation for the whippings, an 18-ft. raised platform had been erected. On it was a large A-shaped scaffold, with straps for the prisoner's wrists attached near the top and thick padding along the crossbar to absorb the impact of the whips on their bodies. As viPs looked on, two muscular men pranced about, slashing Malacca canes through...
...cried out under the lashes, onlookers occasionally tried to crash through police barriers to get a better look. When a prisoner managed to walk away unaided after his flogging, the people cheered. Midway through the proceedings, officials sidelined one of the whippers, whose strokes were not thought to be hard enough...