Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...particular how the Chinese Communists, routed in the battle of Szepingkai in 1946 and on the brink of losing all of Manchuria to Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists, pressured U.S. mediators into calling for a standstill, then used the precious time to regroup. The Chinese later exploited the Korean peace talks at Panmunjom, which dragged on for two years at the cost of 80,000 American casualties...
...Martin was unhesitating about applying monetary brakes whenever he saw inflation threatening-as, for example, during the Korean War and again last year. Yet it was under Martin that the FRB provided much of the stimulus for the 1960-65 boom by expanding credit and increasing the money supply at an unprecedented peacetime rate. It was that ability-and willingness-to fit policy to contemporary needs that won for Martin the confidence of the banking and business community. And in the last analysis it was that confidence, strongly expressed, that all but forced President Johnson to reappoint...
Married. Mia Kim, 25, youngest of the three Korean-born Kim sisters, currently giving an Oriental touch to U.S. song-and-dance on the nightclub circuit; and Tommy Vig, 27, jazz vibraphonist; in a Jewish ceremony in Las Vegas...
...seek a negotiated end to the war. The process involves, perhaps, a few more moves of stepping-up and stepping-back in the war effort before either side is ready to come to peace without complete victory or defeat. If viewed in this same light, a dispatch of Korean troops, sent to Vietnam at the request of the U.S., could be a factor contributing to eventual peace...
...battle-shrewd "ROK" (Republic of Korea) troops. Through the Asian Pacific Council, it plays a leading role in promoting regional cooperation. Next week President Park will receive a U.S. economic mission, and South Korea's Prime Minister II Kwon Chung will be in Washington discussing Korean and Viet Nam development with President Johnson. Chung will ask for U.S. financial aid to enlarge Korea's engineering corps in South Viet Nam to as many as 50,000 men, have them undertake an intensive program of building schools, bridges and roads within Korea's assigned area of military responsibility...