Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iran each year, despite a State Department ban on all arms sales to that country. The suppliers include at least a score of American companies as well as international arms dealers operating in the U.S. In addition, large quantities of American arms sold legally to such allies as South Korea and Israel are being resold to Iran in clear violation of written agreements with...
America is blessed by these immigrants. We can learn so much from them. My second-grade class this year has children from Jordan, Egypt, Mexico, Peru, Cuba, the Philippines, Korea, Thailand and Lebanon; I also have Irish and Polish and English Americans, a first-generation Italian and a child from Sri Lanka. We all speak English. I tell them, "Keep your language and your customs, but learn American ways. You are the peacemakers of tomorrow and will build the bridge to better world understanding...
According to diplomats in Beirut, Iraq owes at least $5 billion to the governments of France, Yugoslavia, South Korea and Rumania for arms purchases and construction projects, and hundreds of millions more to banks and private companies in Western Europe. Iraq has also refused to pay bills due to companies in such gulf states as Qatar and the United Arab Emirates on the ground that the governments of those countries have not honored their pledges to help Iraq's war effort...
Some of the disputes have been settled. South Korea's Hyundai Engineering and Construction Co. reportedly reached an agreement in which, in exchange for prompt payments, it sent 2,000 Korean workers back to Iraq. But the Iraqis have not yet convinced the Philippine government that its citizens, who work in Iraq in a variety of service jobs, should receive 40% of their pay in local currency and the balance in bonds that could be redeemed in hard currency after two years. Nor have foreign businessmen been able to find their own financing for projects that Iraq no longer...
...stops along the way, the air controllers; who knew the identity of the approaching flyer, usually directed him down with a certain audible deference. Glenn put the plane on automatic pilot and began talking about his early flying days. He was asked how clearly he remembered the dogfights over Korea, when he shot down three MiGs the last week of the war. He remembered every detail, he said. Two of the enemy pilots had been very good, but the third was slow. Glenn moved his right hand, fingers straight, slowly upward toward the palm of his left to show...