Word: korea
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...than 5 million, or about 2% of the population; in 1960 the figures were 891,000 and 0.5%. Then in 1965 a new immigration law did away with exclusionary quotas. That brought a surge of largely middle- class Asian professionals - doctors, engineers and academics from Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, India and the Philippines - seeking economic opportunity. In 1975, after the end of the Viet Nam War, 130,000 refugees, mostly from the educated middle class, began arriving. Three years later a second wave of 650,000 Indochinese started their journey from rural and poor areas to refugee camps...
...strikers were doubtless encouraged by the success of the militant students, who, after months of periodic rioting, finally won major political concessions from the government. South Korea's 10 million workers, on the other hand, have gained comparatively little from their country's vaunted 20- year-old economic miracle. While industrialists have reaped huge profits, little of the wealth has trickled down to those manning the factories. South Koreans last year put in the longest workweek in the industrialized world -- 54.4 hours. Yet they earned an average of only $1.55 an hour in manufacturing jobs, compared with $7 for their...
...they bobbed in the sea. If the mines looked rather primitive, there was good reason: most of them were based on a World War I design. According to Defense Department officials, some of the explosives were manufactured by the Soviets. Moscow sold large numbers of the mines to North Korea, which apparently resold them to Iran. The devices pack up to 2,000 lbs. of TNT; when a ship hits the mine, the spikes release acid that detonates the charge...
...slice of last year's market), Apple (which had 8%), Tandy (5%) and Compaq (3%). The remaining 58% of the world market has been carved up by about 150 other firms, including AT& T, Zenith and Commodore in the U.S., Japanese firms like NEC and Toshiba and South Korea's Daewoo and Hyundai. Although the growth of IBM's sales has been inhibited by the hordes of competitors, Apple, Tandy and Compaq have seen sales, earnings or stock prices surge in recent weeks...
Washington officials sound more and more as if they believe Panama can quickly follow the Philippines and South Korea on the march toward democracy. "Noriega's days are numbered," says one official. "He just doesn't know it." Noriega, however, is not a man to be intimidated by the gringos. Panamanians say the general will go when his military staff of 19 colonels advises him that the moment is right -- and not a moment sooner...