Word: korea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year old Ethiopian missed the 1988 Olympic marathon because his country joined North Korea's boycott of the Seoul Games. And though Mekonnen said he was happy he won yesterday, he said: "I don't consider it my Olympic race...
Exxon Shipping Co. President Frank Iarossi said the company has talked with dry docks in South Korea, Japan and Singapore about accepting the vessel after the temporary repairs are made...
...forcefully knocking out a Soviet Russia tired and spent by Hitler's Wehrmacht, the U.S. instigated a policy of containment in response to the expansionist foreign policy pursued by the Soviet Union. The mutually exclusive nature of these stances led to the Cold War, which has been fought in Korea, the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, Nicaragua and Afghanistan...
...subjects as diverse as drugs, volunteerism, government service, ethics, education, child care and the minimum wage. On the morning after his Feb. 9 budget address, he flew to Canada. Then he exhausted his staff (though not himself) on a whirlwind five-day tour to Japan, China and South Korea, including formal meetings with two dozen foreign leaders that required extensive preparation and diverted the Administration from the efforts to confirm Tower and to fill other vacant posts...
...visit Beijing in May for a summit with Deng Xiaoping. Yet there was no indication that Bush spelled out American rethinking of where the relationship goes from here. Nor was he prepared to touch on any ticklish trade and security issues in a six-hour visit to South Korea on Monday before winging home...