Word: koreanness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...concerned citizen who reached the end of his patience over an "uncivil and ugly" Congress, Braden is riding to the rescue in the name of mainstream Americans. As a combat veteran--he served in both the Korean and Vietnam wars--he backs a strong national defense but also wants to crack down on inefficient Pentagon spending. His most dramatic proposal: to deprive the President and Congress of their full salary should they fail to pass a budget by Oct. 1 each year...
Since the '48 Olympics, Kirrane has played professional hockey in the Bruins organization, served in the Korean War, worked for 38 years as a Brookline firefighter and managed the rink at Bright Hockey Center...
When a South Korean businessman expressed interest last April in being photographed with Bill Clinton, the Democratic National Committee was only too happy to sell him a $50,000 ticket to a presidential fund raiser. At first the deal worked precisely the way these things are supposed to. John Lee's company bought not one ticket but five; then Lee attended the dinner with several associates and walked away with his pictorial reward. All seemed fine until two weeks ago, when a reporter from the Los Angeles Times phoned the D.N.C. with a question. Why, the reporter wanted to know...
Hoping to dodge his devils, Devlin pursues a second skill. He is a Tae Kwon Do adept, and though he is white, middle aged and middle class, he opens a gym to teach this Korean martial art in Baltimore's black ghetto. This is both inspiration and folly, redoubled because he encourages his 17-year-old daughter, who also knows Tae Kwon Do, to help out. The neighborhood's young black drug dealers are pragmatists, eager to learn the fighting discipline for self-protection when they are sent to prison. Devlin, an idealist trying shakily not to unravel, commits...
ARRESTED. ROBERT KIM, 56, civilian Navy computer analyst; on charges of passing classified documents on North Korea and U.S. policy to a South Korean attache; in Alexandria, Virginia. Kim, a South Korean native, became a U.S. citizen in 1974. He faces a maximum 10-year jail sentence if convicted...