Word: korea
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...addition, Western arms dealers face an increasingly stiff challenge from the developing countries. "All of God's children are producing military weapons," remarked a U.S. contractor, "so the competition is blistering." New arms exporters crowding into the market include Brazil, Argentina, South Korea, Taiwan, India, Singapore and South Africa. At last month's Paris Air Show, Brazil proudly displayed its new Embraer EMB-312 Tucano, a turboprop military trainer jet that has been ordered by Britain's Royal Air Force. As more countries step up production of military hardware, they are buying less from traditional suppliers. Tokyo's insistence earlier...
...creature like Spence, with a past he is unwilling to talk about and a present that consists of convincing mysterious clients that he has plenty of influence. Spence would probably still be throwing dinners at the posh Four Seasons Hotel for people like Donald Gregg, U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, as he did last spring, if the police had not raided a male prostitution service in February. The raid turned up thousands of dollars' worth of credit-card receipts signed by Spence. Though he was not the only Washington figure to use the service (the Washington Times, which broke...
...most serious case people usually make against grapefruit is that it's a bit too tart. But last week consumer groups in South Korea launched a boycott of U.S. grapefruit because they believe the produce is contaminated with Alar, a chemical preservative and suspected carcinogen that has been used by apple processors...
...when it comes to fishing, which provides a staple of the country's diet. Japan is currently embroiled in a dispute with the U.S. and several Pacific nations about the charge that the Japanese squid fishermen inflict untold damage on marine life with their drift nets. Taiwan and South Korea also have extensive drift-net operations, but Japan's are the largest. And though U.S. fishermen, as the Japanese are quick to point out, use drift nets, they tend to be much smaller than the Asian variety...
This year's awardees are: Kyu-Chul Choi, from Seoul, South Korea; Monica Flores Correa, from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Yossi Melman, from Tel Aviv, Israel; and Goenawan Mohamad from Jakarta, Indonesia...