Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regular line of work. I'm a Viking." He lugubriously narrates his biography: "My grandfather was an old Yugoslavian guerrilla fighter. My grandmother was an old Yugoslavian guerrilla. My family was so underprivileged we used to get food from Europe. Finally I was adopted by a Korean family...
...apparent. A typical slogan was "Yankees Keep Silent," underscoring the student belief that Washington is behind Park's Japan policy; things were not helped by recent announcement of U.S. plans to increase procurement in Japan of military items needed in Viet Nam and readily available in Korea. "While Korean soldiers are to share their blood in Viet Nam, Japan is to enjoy the economic windfall," muttered a Seoul newspaper...
Stabbed Queen. Most opposition to the treaty stems from the belief that its provisions-especially on fishing rights-favor Japanese industry. Apart from that, all Korean youths have been brought up on a propaganda and textbook diet of hatred for Japan as Korea's traditional foe. Moved more by emotional chauvinism than by politics, the students still bitterly remember heroine Queen Min, who was stabbed to death by Japanese assassins in 1895-a film portraying her sad fate has been playing to packed moviehouses...
...twelve years since the end of the Korean War, eleven of the 21 captured G.I.s who defected to Red China have come forlornly home. Last week turncoat No. 12 returned.* By comparison with his predecessors, ex-Corporal William C. White, 35, a Negro from Plumerville, Ark., had fared well during his 11½ years behind the Bamboo Curtain. A high school dropout in Kansas City, White got a law degree in Peking, studied Russian and Chinese literature and worked as a translator. White also married a Chinese girl, who accompanied him with their two children aged six and four...
...TRANSPORTATION. Obsolete equipment, notably trucks and troop carriers of World War II and Korean War vintage, and shortages, particularly of helicopters. The Army has 400 helicopters in Viet Nam, keeps them at full strength only by scrounging replacements from three Stateside divisions, all part of the Strategic Army Corps, which is held in reserve to cope with emergencies anywhere in the world...