Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...around--the incredible brutality of our war. He has three lines of defense: our conduct was no more brutal than in other wars, atrocities like My Lai were rare, and we did not violate the international rules of war too often. So who cares? That we were brutal in Korea is no excuse for Vietnam-cruelty is not governed by rules of precedent. And the antiwar movement paid much less attention to the My Lai's and Son My's than it did to the day-in and day--out operation of the war. Nothing Podhoretz says matters...
Unseen by the audience, half a dozen plainclothesmen, some armed with light antitank weapons, stood between the President and a column of tanks. South Korea's President had not forgotten that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was killed last October during a military parade. "Since Sadat," said one U.S. observer, "these military exercises make some folks nervous...
...sincerely hoping you'll pray as loudly and as long as you did in 1953-Jan. 20th. I also hope you'll go to Egypt and Palestine and perhaps to Hungary and Poland in order to surrender to the Kremlin as you did in Korea...
While American fans get ready for the 111th season of pro baseball, fans in South Korea eagerly await the start of No. 1, their very first season. In the Land of the Morning Calm, baseball is called yagoo, and since missionaries brought the game, nearly 70 years ago, it has become an avidly followed amateur sport. Playoffs among the country's 52 high school teams are so popular that they are televised during hours of low electrical demand so that the games will not cause brownouts. But somehow no one ever put together a pro league until this year...
...Syria, have been able to fill only part of the country's arms needs. Tehran has thus had to turn for help to a strange assortment of suppliers. A significant portion of the arms shipments going to Iran comes from the Soviet Union, East Germany and North Korea. Israel, which regards Iraq as its most implacable enemy among the Muslim states, has sold Iran Israeli-made weapons such as sea-to-sea and air-to-air missiles, as well as some parts for the U.S.-made matériel the Ayatullah's regime inherited when Shah Mohammed Reza...