Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Solzhenitsyn is right in his denunciation of the double standard of morality that prevails in the academy. Contrast the silence about the genocide in Cambodia and about repression in Cuba and Viet Nam with the stormy agitation about South Korea or South Africa. Solzhenitsyn is right in decrying our failure of nerve. He is saying that any society that makes mere survival the be-all and end-all of life will sacrifice everything that makes life worth living. He is warning us that whoever values comfort, property or security above freedom when it is threatened will lose not only their...
Many of these implications rise from his service with the Marines in the Pacific during World War II and later in Korea: in particular, the series of Death Ships, schematic models of the floating charnel houses that vessels (including his own) were reduced to by kamikaze attacks. Likewise, the oddly titled Hutch-One Armed "Astroturf" Man with a Defense, 1976, is a grotesque and sardonic parody of the violent hero, a maimed golem with a boxing glove for a head. If much of Westermann's work is a continuous effort to exorcise the horrors of war, the materialistic defeats...
...appointed in 1977. So far this fiscal year, the bank approved direct loans to foreign buyers for $2.1 billion in exports, up from $423 million in the equivalent period a year ago. Last week the bank announced its biggest deal yet: a $732 million credit for the Korea Electric Co. to buy two U.S. nuclear power stations. The project, which will ultimately cost $2.2 billion, will support 56,600 jobs at Westinghouse, Bechtel and more than 1,000 subcontractors and suppliers. The Administration has asked for-and Congress is expected to approve-an increase in Eximbank's lending authority...
...pressure on an erstwhile ally that is leaning more and more toward Moscow. Soviet technical aid and loans have reinforced the Kremlin's influence in Viet Nam. Fearful of being encircled by Soviet-dominated countries, Peking this year has dispatched high-level diplomatic missions to Burma, Nepal and North Korea in an effort to shore up good relations with border nations. The verbal fireworks that China has exploded over the refugee issue are a clear warning that Peking will respond even more menacingly to any attempt by Hanoi to overthrow the pro-Chinese regime in Cambodia or to establish Soviet...
...economic conditions of the Third World, of course, are not uniform. The OPEC nations have become world financial powers, and a handful of once depressed countries, such as South Korea and Taiwan, are developing flourishing new industries. But the majority of LDCS have been knocked backward in the 1970s by a devastating one-two punch: oil price boosts that have raised the cost of running the most primitive factories and farm machines, and recession in the industrial world that has restricted markets for cotton, copper, cocoa, tin and other raw materials sold by less developed lands. In many countries...