Word: korean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong measure of condemnation would not force the Chinese out of Tibet, but it would at least maintain the ideals of the United Nations. After promisingly energetic stands in the Korean and Suez crises, the U.N. seems headed down the familiar road of reluctance that destroyed its predecessor...
...huts and tents, covered the front wherever war burned hottest: in Africa, Sicily, Italy, Belgium, France and Germany. He hung it in Korea in 1950, won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage, won another in 1953 for his stories on President-elect Eisenhower's trip to the Korean front. His byline, as a top Associated Press reporter, was for years among the most widely known in the U.S. Last week globetrotting, leg-weary Newsman Don Whitehead, 51, hung his hat to stay. Its peg: Knoxville, Tenn.-the same city he had left as a rising young journalist 24 years...
...Tokyo officialdom, Japan's 800,000 "resident Koreans" have long been unwelcome guests who contribute more than their share to Japanese crime and unemployment statistics. But to Soren, the Red-lining General Federation of Korean Residents in Japan, the Koreans are unwilling exiles. Loudly insisting that at least 120,000 of the Koreans in Japan yearn to go to Communist North Korea, Soren has repeatedly demanded mass repatriation as "a basic human right." Last February, after the North Korean government grandly chimed in with an offer to take in all of Japan's Korean residents at once...
...rush never came. The first day of the program, 15,000 Koreans showed up at the ward offices, but only 117 signed up. The rest went at the behest of Korean Communist leaders to protest the repatriation plan. The last-minute question about a change of mind, insisted the Reds would be "a breach of human rights." Tight as their control over their followers appeared, the Reds had not forgotten that in U.N. prisoner-of-war camps at the end of the Korean war, a similar questioning process had turned up an embarrassing 14,000 Chinese Communist soldiers...
...fuel economy at first by 15%-and eventually to 19 miles per gallon. But Cole still hankered to perfect a rear engine for cars. In his spare time he designed a tank powered by an air-cooled, horizontally opposed engine (the same kind as in the Corvair). When the Korean war broke out, the Army grabbed the plan for its T-41 tank, and Cole was made boss of Cadillac's huge plant in Cleveland. There his idea of building a rear-engine small car took shape. Every night in his room at the Lake Shore Hotel, he bent...