Word: koreas
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Admirals and generals do not lose wars. Presidents do, or at least they fail to win them. Consider: Truman in Korea and Lyndon Johnson in Viet...
This performance was all the more remarkable because the Pacific countries are heavily dependent upon selling their goods abroad. Despite the slump that has softened demand for imports in the U.S. and Europe, many Asian nations have still boosted exports. In the past three months South Korea's sales abroad have risen by 15% and Taiwan's are up 7% from the same period a year...
Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore are now mimicking Japan's export-led growth. No longer content to be just peddlers of cheap clothing or cookware these new Japans are moving into heavy industry and consumer electronics Singapore is second to the U.S. in building oil-drilling rigs. South Korea has become a major force in world steel production and shipbuilding and is now sending television sets to the U.S. and automobiles to Great Britain. Taiwan is the fourth largest supplier of machine tools to the U.S. and is moving into minicomputers...
...White House. Eisenhower probably could have been elected on any platform he chose in 1952, but he and his Republican handlers relished running against the Truman "mess in Washington," and poor Adlai Stevenson, from Springfield, Ill., was not allowed to change the subject. Today that mess ("Communism, Corruption, Korea") is largely forgotten; we have seen worse. And Harry Truman has a reputation as a statesman-for the first postwar line drawing against the Soviets, the Truman Doctrine covering Turkey and Greece; for the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe; and for the founding of NATO. He was prompt and courageous...
...President has welcomed, or is favorably considering, a long list of new customers for the powerful F16. Among them: Pakistan, Egypt, Venezuela and South Korea. "Wherever we have trouble, they seem to think that, but for another F16, we would be lost," says Democratic Senator Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts. In addition, the Administration is considering the sale of weapons to China, which will upset both the Soviet Union and American conservatives who oppose arming Communist countries...