Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Korean declaration came after a long, gradual drift toward jooche (national identity), and seemed directed less at Moscow than at Peking. As such, the break represented one more in a series of nagging Asian setbacks for Red China...
...some in offices. With the impeccable restraint of a good Timesman, Tolchin merely hinted that many Americans apparently require crisis nights to get interested in fertility rites; he found statistics showing that the national birth rate jumped markedly nine months after Pearl Harbor and after the outbreak of the Korean War. In any case, he added, sociologists had predicted all along that the New York blackout would "provide a rich mine for behavioral, sociological and psychological discovery...
...special liaison group have lived and worked daily with the Korean Tigers [July 22] since their arrival in Viet Nam. They rank professionally with any fighting unit we've known. We find them "brutally efficient," but nowhere have we seen any grave sitting, tae kwon do cheekbone splitting, or mutilation by skinning. Had the Tigers done these things, 695 Viet Cong would never have surrendered...
...Communist North with the retaliatory raid against Communist PT-boat installations in the Gulf of Tonkin. Six months later, it became a daily routine. The American campaign from the skies is running some 670 sorties a day over both North and South Viet Nam, rivaling that of the Korean War. For the third time, Navy jets returned to the big oil-storage tanks outside the port of Haiphong, claimed afterward that cumulative destruction of the complex now stood at 90%. Though monsoon clouds hampered raids north of the Red River, American planes elsewhere in Ho Chi Minh-land pounded...
South Vietnamese peasants see another side of the Koreans. When refugees come back to a Korean-cleared village, they are likely to find their houses cleaned and repaired, the grass cut, the area sprayed with insecticide. Koreans scrupulously and sensitively follow Oriental custom in their dealings with village elders and the populace as a whole. Two Korean soldiers who raped a Vietnamese woman were summarily shot in front of their company...