Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Angeles County Republican, represents a rare success story by becoming the first Korean-American elected to Congress. At the same time there are more stories of Michael Woo, a Chinese-American who lost the mayoral race of Los Angeles last year...
Fenton grew up in Medfield, a suburb 30 minutes south of Boston, and graduated from Boston University before serving in the Korean...
When he returned from the Korean War, he opened a photography shop in Medfield and worked as a journalist for the Franklin Sentinel and the Milford Daily News...
...Hiss case made Nixon a national figure and launched him into a run for the Senate in 1950 against Helen Gahagan Douglas, a former actress who had served six years in the House as an ardent New Dealer. Since red hunting was a national mania in these Korean War days, Douglas foolishly tried to accuse Nixon of being soft on communism, and invented the name that haunted him for the rest of his life: Tricky Dick. But when it came to mudslinging, she was up against a champion. He called her the "pink lady" and declared that she was "pink...
...unable to decide which of three inconsistent goals to stress most: pressing Beijing to stop jailing dissidents and making products with what amounts to prison slave labor; retaining China as a major trade partner and market for American goods and investment; pleading with the Chinese to help change North Korean direction on nuclear weapons. Contradictory demands have only confused and infuriated Beijing and made Clinton's own decision June 3 on whether to continue most-favored-nation trade treatment for China more difficult...