Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...policymakers, Andrew Young. They fear, above all, that Carter may be weakening the U.S. capacity to stand up to the still adventurous and aggressive Soviet Union. He has taken a series of actions they find dismaying: ordering a U.S. troop withdrawal (which he reduced somewhat last week) from South Korea, canceling the B-1 bomber, responding tepidly to Soviet intervention on the African horn, waffling on the neutron bomb and then deciding to postpone his decision. Moreover, he has asked Russia for nothing comparable in return for these unilateral actions. In West Germany, where his reputation is lowest, Carter...
...decision is not made in the Carter Administration until the President makes up his mind in private. On occasion he does not follow the advice of even his most senior assistants, as he showed when he made his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from South Korea. This time Carter went partly along with his advisers' recommendations. He postponed production of the bomb but gave a go-ahead for work on the Lance missile and artillery shell that will deliver...
...flippant responses to questions revealed much about the man. Said committee Counsel Leon Jaworski, who was often irritated by Park's demeanor: "He treats this whole affair as just an ordinary sort of thing." Park practiced, according to a report he wrote on how to win support for Korea in Congress, "invitation diplomacy." He entertained Congressmen in his George Town Club; he arranged junkets for them and their wives to Seoul. "The past records indicate that the effectiveness of invitation diplomacy is nearly 100%," Park told the Korean government...
...assertions that he had nothing to do with Park other than being given two elaborate ($6,000 total) birthday parties at the George Town Club plus a set of golf clubs and some hurricane lamps. The paper, written in Korean and titled "U.S. Congressional Delegation's visit to Korea," was found in Park's house in Washington. The document discussed the trip that O'Neill, 19 other Congressmen and some of their wives took to Korea in 1974. It said: "Mr. O'Neill specifically requested us to provide those Congressmen with election campaign funds and their...
...birders" who ever get a chance to see these magnificent creatures close up is Zoologist Won Pyong Oh, director of the Institute of Ornithology at South Korea's Kyung Hee University. Five times each winter, Won, 52, makes a well-advertised venture into the DMZ under the watchful eyes of soldiers on both sides of the line in order to observe and photograph the monogamous cranes in their elaborate mating rituals, which include wing flapping, bows and leaps into the air. "The Americans get very nervous," explains Won, who makes his perch right on the Military Demarcation Line...