Word: korean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Laos, where the year-old government of Premier Phoui Sananikone has taken an ever firmer pro-Western stance, Peking by this theory was driven by the same motive that prompted its intervention in the Korean war: an obsession with the need for friendly, or, at worst, safely neutral buffer states on all its borders. With luck the Chinese could hope to topple Phoui's government and force a more sympathetic regime into power; more modestly, they could almost certainly count on occupying Laos' northern provinces, thus creating a "sanitized" zone on China's southern frontier...
...week's report, the final one to be made by the group, the Draper Committee's deepest worry was that the U.S. might be fooled into thinking that Congress had not cut dangerously into foreign-aid programs. Overall spending figures, the committee explained, are deceptive. During the Korean war, the U.S. built up an $8.5 billion backlog of military-aid appropriations. But since 1954 the U.S. has been delivering about $2.5 billion worth of arms to its allies-while congressional appropriations averaged only $1.5 billion a year'. The difference has been made up by digging into...
...received an otherwise inexplicable visit from North Viet Nam's goat-bearded Ho Chi Minh.) Last week, as if to make up for lost time, Red China's Foreign Ministry burst out with implied threats reminiscent of those that preceded Mao's intervention in the Korean...
...first major election since Congress enacted the statehood bill last March. Never before had such a pageant launched an American state. To the polling places came men in bright aloha shirts and slacks, women in cotton-print Western dresses and loose-fitting, ankle-length muumuus.-They were Japanese, Chinese, Korean. Filipino, Puerto Rican, purebred Hawaiian and haole (Caucasian), and combinations thereof, and they represented together the broad racial spectrum that gives Hawaii its unique vitality...
...bill collector to tourist guide. After graduation he worked for two years, borrowed $3,000 to go to Harvard Law School, went back to Hawaii in 1935 with his degree and "10? in my pocket." The law firm he founded is wonderfully Hawaiian-Fong, Miho, Choy & Robinson -Chinese, Japanese. Korean and Caucasian, in that order. He plunged energetically into politics, and after the war into business, is now the president of six prospering companies (real estate, insurance, shopping centers, loans and investments, and a banana plantation), has spent 14 years in the territorial legislature, six of them as stentorian-voiced...