Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were having a few beers with some Eastern leaders--you know, those rulers are really pretty laid back--and we figure that the Moonies of Manchuria will eventually rise up against Korea..." Dave was still nodding attentively, but I, no longer afraid that this ride would turn into some bizarre and violent Moonie conversion, was letting my memory wander back over the series of disasters which had brought us to our loquacious Moonie chauffeur...
...narrowly, a presidential veto of a protectionist trade bill that had passed both the House and the Senate. That bill took a piecemeal approach, among other things setting a new system of country-by-country quotas on imports of textiles, shoes and copper from such places as Taiwan, South Korea and Thailand...
...five years. When West Germany and Switzerland refused to go along with such "voluntary" restraints, Washington set quotas that rolled back their exports to levels set in 1981 and 1985. Also in 1986, the Administration negotiated separate agreements with Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea that limited the growth of their textile exports to the U.S. to 1% or less a year. Argues William Cline, a senior fellow at Washington's Institute for International Economics: "The Administration's actual record is considerably more protectionist than its ideology...
...that, foreign aid still has its eloquent defenders. Studies show it has not only boosted the standard of living in many countries but sharply raised literacy and life expectancy. South Korea, devastated by its three-year war with North Korea in the early 1950s, used grants and loans to become a healthy industrial power. Taiwan also built a strong economy with help from its friends. The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, has promoted health and nutrition programs and immunized millions of children against measles, diphtheria, typhoid and other diseases. "Overall, the record is very good," says John Sewell, president...
Evangelist Pat Robertson, who has been shadowing Kemp's efforts to woo conservatives, has lost ground among voters since news reports appeared last September alleging that he dodged combat duty in Korea. Robertson's favorable rating among Republicans and independents has dived 20 percentage points since last May, to 27%, and 56% of those familiar with Robertson now say they have a "generally unfavorable" impression of him. The combative White House communications director, Patrick Buchanan, who has been dropping hints about running for President, also has a high negative rating: 41% of Republicans and independents familiar with Buchanan have...