Word: koreas
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...Masan, 187 miles south of Seoul, a soccer match between South Korea and Egypt was suspended today when the field was blanketed by tear gas fired by police at protesters, Yonhap said...
SEOUL, South Korea--Thousands of protesters hurling rocks and firebombs fought riot police in Seoul and other cities yesterday to protest the government party's confirmation of President Chun Doo-hwan's handpicked presidential candidate...
Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky, then a Harvard graduate student fighting in Korea. was outraged at the rioting students and condemned them in a letter to The New York Times. "I was absolutely furious about it at the time," the former dean of the Faculty says. Rosovsky says that from his foxhole in Korea, Pogo seemed like quite a trivial reason to have a riot. "I thought it was in bad taste," he says, adding that now, "I'm sort of less taken with myself...
Executive Editor Ron Kriss directed this week's project with assistance from China-born Reporter-Researcher Oscar Chiang. Kriss served in South Korea while in the Army during the mid-1950s and later reported on China, then off limits to U.S. journalists, for United Press International from Tokyo. "I read Cheng's manuscript, and it knocked me out," says Kriss. "It is a powerful testament, akin to Arthur Koestler's tale of life under Soviet Communism, Darkness at Noon. It's an account of a brave woman's stubborn resistance to an overwhelmingly powerful regime." Kriss, who visited China last...
...publicly blames Iran for prolonging the war. Despite its botched arms-for-hostages deal with Iran, the Administration has been urging other countries to cut off military shipments to that nation, and last week it requested that the Soviet Union put similar pressure on East bloc countries and North Korea...