Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the Reagan Administration attempts to mend America's nuclear-power industry, such extensive repairs are not as yet necessary in other countries. From South Korea (one reactor) to the Soviet Union (23 reactors), the world is still looking more or less confidently to the atom for its electric power. Outside the U.S., 21 countries now have a total of 182 atomic-powered generating plants in operation, and another 138 plants are under construction...
...report as income. It was taxable, the Government contends, because he used the funds for "personal and business purposes," not for church-related religious expenses. The indictment also states that Moon and Kamiyama in 1973 formed a company, Tong II Enterprises, to import ginseng tea and other items from Korea for sale in the U.S. Moon received $50,000 worth of stock in the corporation, claims the indictment, but he did not report the receipt of the stock as taxable income...
Egypt has sent to Baghdad, via Jordan, some of the obsolete Soviet weapons that it is replacing with American arms. In the midst of the fighting, France delivered to Iraq four Mirage jets that had been ordered before the war broke out. Iran has turned to North Korea and even Israel in search of spare parts and supplies. Many of the deals have been negotiated by shadowy European middlemen who deal in cash commissions, not moral questions...
...help the North Koreans fight the American-backed South Koreans. He did so under "no pressure" from the government, but rather out of a "great deal of nationalistic patriotism on my part." The rallying cry that stirred him and his compatriots was "Resist the United States and aid Korea; Protect your home and defend your country." "After half a century we finally had peace," he says of post-revolutionary China, and they felt threatened by U.S. connections with the hated Chiang...
...Korea was a different life, and it took some time to get used to it," Walker said. "Actually, the most exciting thing about it was coming home." When the opportunity arose to apply to West Point, Walker jumped at it. "I was enlisted and, you know, looking for good ways to advance myself. Anyone unmarried and under 21 can apply--you just have to take a lot of academic tests...