Word: korean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trial, falling in the midst of the Korean War and the red-baiting campaign of Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy, embodied the polarizations and anxieties of the era. The Rosenbergs were executed at Sing Sing two years later...
...course of such bright and dramatic planets through the night sky and noting where their paths would cross during the day. Such a celestial coming together would likely be regarded as a portent of great events. Even here, though, the returns of science seem to be contradictory. Chinese and Korean astronomers noted that an extremely brilliant 70-day stellar flare-up was visible in the Eastern Hemisphere around 5 B.C., one of only six recorded in our galaxy. Could this have been the Wise Men's star...
...from their own, and many Chinese discovered an unsuspected delight (even Mao finally did) in the mobility and openness of American society, the antithesis of China's own introspective and hierarchical world. In the late 1970s, many Americans are inclined to forget their view of the Chinese, during the Korean War, as a menacing ant-people in quilted jackets swarming across the Yalu River and brainwashing American innocents...
Taiwan's present dilemma really began in 1949, when Chiang Kai-shek and his central government in exile moved to Taipei. After Peking entered the Korean War in 1950, President Truman helped secure the island from Communist conquest by interposing the U.S. Seventh Fleet between Taiwan and the mainland-an act incidentally that also prevented the Nationalists from trying to reconquer China. American support, both military and economic, eventually encouraged the Kuomintang to enact many of the reforms it had failed to carry out while in power on the mainland. Today, Taiwan is one of the best...
Suzi Park Thomson, onetime aide to retired House Speaker Carl Albert and reputed agent of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency: "I'd like to run for Congress, so Korean Americans have a voice...