Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rebuilt area will include a new seven-story residential building to be built behind Grendel's, on the current site of the Holy Cross Armenian Catholic Church and the Shilla Korean and Japanese restaurant...
...they sifted and sorted through the millions of bits of data ... the chilling conclusion became more and more inescapable, and they notified Washington. Finally, at 7:10 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese put in an urgent call to Ronald Reagan...The mystery of a missing South Korean jetliner...had been solved: 17 hours earlier Korean Airlines Flight 007 had been cold-bloodedly blasted out of the skies by a missile-firing Soviet interceptor, with an all but certain loss of 269 lives." --Sept...
SEOUL, South Korea: A three-judge panel sentenced former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan to death for mutiny and murder and sentenced his successor, Roh Tae-woo, to 22 1/2 years for participation in mutiny. The landmark decision puts a cap on an era of corruption and oligarchical politics that had gripped the country throughout the 1980's. The two convicted men were boyhood friends who rose through the military and as generals staged a coup in 1979, placing Chun into the presidency. Six months later, Chun ordered a brutal crackdown of pro-democracy uprisings in the Kwang...
...KOREAN AIR LINES FLIGHT 007. Shot down over Soviet airspace, Sept. 1, 1983; 269 killed. The company later changed its name to Korean...
...Northern Dancer--until giving up the track for a life of dressage and show jumping. To further nail the female audience, NBC brought back the soothing, soft John Tesh, formerly of Entertainment Tonight, a far cry from the prickly Bryant Gumbel and downer sidebars on orphans aired during the Korean Games in 1988. It is hard to forget that Tesh's expertise runs more to the marriage of rocker Tommy Lee and Baywatch's Pamela Anderson than to hard news when he uses "histrionics" to mean history...