Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past year the Khomeini government has been gaining increasing support from the Soviet Union and its allies, including North Korea, Cuba and East Germany. Most helpful, perhaps, has been Syria, an Arab neighbor with a long history of hostility toward Iraq. Through Syria, Iran received large shipments of Soviet weaponry, including 130-mm artillery pieces, antiaircraft guns and tank engines. In the meantime, Washington remained silent while Israel sold Iran an estimated $120 million worth of military hardware, including spare parts and ammunition for Iran's American-made equipment, which had been acquired during the rule of the Shah...
Perhaps the only oasis in the world economic wasteland is the far-eastern rim of Asia. By selling high-quality products at low prices, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong have garnered prodigious growth and captured hefty shares of the world markets for autos, steel, shipbuilding, electronics and clothing. Nonetheless, sluggish growth in the West has started to cut into the demand for Asian exports. Moreover, tightening trade restrictions pose a threat to Asian economies. Japan, for example, had to curb its car exports to the U.S. and several European countries, after having been threatened with quotas...
...anointed messiah and founder of the Unification Church, which claims 3 million members around the world, and his wife, Korean-born Hak Ja Han, 40: a daughter, their 13th child; in Tarrytown, NY. Name: Jeung Jin Nim (March of Heart). Weight: 7 lbs. 8 oz. Moon, also born in Korea, was convicted in May of conspiracy to evade paying personal income tax and is awaiting sentencing...
...these people are conflict, and the tactics employed in Korea and in Vietnam tend to show that "fire power-attrition" is questionable, something should be done to bring this matter to the attention of as many voters as possible before Administration budgets commit this country to more of the same...
...been born since liberation and don't remember the bad old days...all they can remember is tumultuous political campaigns and a sluggish economy." Such an explanation is "condescending and insulting," he notes. "It suggests that China could not do as well economically as its neighbors Taiwan and South Korea, or achieve both the political democracy and economic growth of Japan...