Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frequently through the countryside, sharing rice wine and kimchi-the garlic-laden pickled cabbage of Korea -with farmers who still live and labor much as they did centuries ago. No gladhander, he adopts a professional role in explaining his aims to the people. The current goal: ratification of a Korean-Japanese treaty (TIME, April 2) that would normalize relations between the two antagonistic neighbors for the first time in this century...
...waters inside the former limit set by Syngman Rhee, it also provides for Japanese payment of $300 million in reparations, $200 million in longterm, low-interest loans-and the promise of vast new markets that may do much to ease South Korea's 10% unemployment. Yet, to many Koreans who fear Japanese economic domination, the treaty sounds dangerous. "Negotiating with the Japanese is like peeling a green onion," said one Korean recently. "You never know what's there until it's all gone...
...Chief Lloyd Hand in a presidential jet to pick up Park in Seoul. More importantly for the U.S.. Park arrives in Washington far from emptyhanded. In return for continued U.S. aid and Washington's political support, he is prepared to offer up to 30,000 combat-ready Korean troops for service in South Viet...
...hook by sending a hemispheric peace-keeping force into the Dominican Republic (see THE HEMISPHERE). And in Viet Nam, despite a continuing chorus of criticism, particularly on U.S. college campuses,' the President kept increasing the pressure. In the largest amphibious landing operation since the Korean War, 3,000 marines and 3,000 seabees went ashore near Chu Lai to build an airbase for launching more bombing raids into North Viet Nam. Although the President solemnly declared that "our firmness may well have brought us closer to peace," he admitted to reporters last week: "It's a mess. There...
...fact, though damaged by the MIG gunfire, the RB-47 limped safely to Yokota Airbase in Japan, with none of its six crewmen injured. It was the eighth air attack on U.S. aircraft by North Koreans since the armistice of 1953. Washington's retort was blunt and potent: the presentation to the South Korean air force of 20 new F-5 fighter planes packing twice the punch at twice the speed of the marauding...