Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even harder should Laos fall, but they are nevertheless determined -to win. They know that they must move fast to make up for wasted years. Diem's army, with the concurrence of U.S. military missions, was built up as a conventional force geared to fight off a Korean-type invasion from Communist North Viet Nam. In the bitter Indo-China war, the French army had tried everything in the book, from armored columns to fortified posts to mobile units to recruiting local militia. Diem's Vietnamese army vainly followed suit-placing guard details at bridges and factories, leaving...
...personal belongings, Chang, 39. was freed. Humbly he told reporters: "I am sorry for causing all this trouble." With his wife, he took a taxi to a cousin's home (his own luxurious villa had long been rented), then knelt in prayer with his family and a Korean Presbyterian minister...
Witty, yam-shaped Democrat Di Salle, Harry Truman's price stabilization chief during the Korean war, is now Governor of Ohio. People still call him Mike, but after his present term, he may no longer be Governor. Di Salle faces a strenuous battle this fall against Republican State Auditor James A. Rhodes. A Di Salle-v.-Rhodes contest would confront voters with a clear-cut choice between differing concepts of government. Di Salle, 54, is a welfare-stater who in 1959 pushed through the legislature a $300 million increase in state taxes. Rhodes, 53, will be running...
Eleven years ago, Han, then 26, was just a disgruntled employee in a government department store in Pyongyang, capital of Red North Korea. He fled south with retreating United Nations troops, found himself in the teeming southern Korean coastal city of Pusan. Like thousands of other jobless refugees, Han opened a tiny store specializing in black-market supplies filched from U.S. military ware houses and PX stores, luxury goods smuggled from Japan. Soon Han muscled his way to the top of the pack, sported a smashed nose and livid knife scars as testimony to his ruthlessness. Not satisfied with being...
...canvassed clients at Beirut hotels, pared his profit margins in order to offer irresistible rates. To build capital, he contracted for any kind of business he could get. once rented his office furniture to the Red Cross and temporarily ran the currency exchange squatting on the bare floor. The Korean war and the consequent boom in currency transactions boosted Bedas' income, and his aggressiveness so impressed wealthy clients that more and more of them left funds in his care...