Word: korea
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...fact, Reed has thrived on challenges. He took two undergraduate degrees in a rigorous five-year program that had him enrolled in engineering courses at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in liberal-arts studies at Washington & Jefferson College near Pittsburgh. Reed served in Korea as an Army Corps of Engineers officer, then briefly joined Goodyear Tire & Rubber as a trainee. In 1965 he earned a business degree from M. I. T. 's Sloan School of Management, signing on after graduation with Citicorp's predecessor, First National City Bank. Within five years, Reed found himself head of the bank's notoriously...
Assistant Secretary of State Abrams is scheduled to testify June 2 and can expect tough grilling. Retired Army Major General John Singlaub testified that Abrams last March had "concurred in" his soliciting of contra contributions from two countries (Taiwan and South Korea) and had promised to send a "signal" that Singlaub had the Government's blessing. Later, said Singlaub, Abrams told him that solicitation of one country, apparently Taiwan, would be handled at the "highest level." Singlaub took that to mean "someone in the White House." Abrams disputes parts of this account...
This week Congressman Thomas Foglietta, who was beaten up by police when he accompanied Kim Dae Jung to Seoul on his return from exile in the U.S. two years ago, will introduce a bill calling for economic sanctions against South Korea unless it demonstrates progress in moving toward democracy. Foglietta, a Democrat, was forced to strip out some of the toughest measures, including the denial of commercial landing rights for South Korean airlines, when it became clear that the bill as it read stood virtually no chance of passage. But the amended bill would still commit the U.S. to voting...
Last week's spasm of police head knocking and teargassing made it clear that Chun is determined to make good on past threats to crush the opposition. But the violence also proved that South Korea's debate over democratic reform cannot be stifled by the wishes of a single autocrat; quite possibly it cannot be stifled...
Once a port of call for NATO warships, Malta under Labor increasingly turned to the Soviet Union, North Korea and Libya for economic and military aid. So close were security ties with Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi that Maltese officials tried to warn Tripoli minutes before last year's U.S. air raid on Libya...