Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MARTYRED, by Richard Kim. This remorseless and controlled first novel takes the Korean war as its setting and the presumed martyrdom of twelve Christian ministers as its theme...
...discharged from the Japanese army before Pearl Harbor, he piled up a fortune by supplying spare auto parts to the Imperial Navy. At war's end, expecting an eventual travel boom, he used his profits to start buying hotels, also began acquiring bus and taxi companies. After the Korean war, as prospering Japanese businessmen began buying more foreign goods, he started importing U.S. autos and golf clubs. As sole owner of his many-sided business empire, Osano has amassed a personal fortune of about $140 million...
...scrap with Barry Goldwater in the fall of 1961, when the Arizona conservative read into the Congressional Record a story for the Chicago Tribune which stated that "the man behind President Kennedy's rocking chair in a world with war tensions, escaped military service as a conscientious objector and Korean War service as a father." For the rest, he remained in the background: what he contributed to the fabric of Kennedy statements was almost impossible to distinguish from the rest. "I knew the way Kennedy thought, and how he would say things," Sorensen explains simply...
...fighting has been going for 16 years. In a country less populous than the state of New York, it has already claimed the lives of some 200,000 people - six times the total battle deaths of all U.S. forces in the Korean...
...MARTYRED, by Richard Kim. In this somber, remorseless and beautifully controlled first novel, the author takes the Korean war as his setting and the presumed martyrdom of twelve Christian ministers as his theme. Modern sainthood, he finds, most often is achieved by men racked by doubt...