Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hamper the contras' recruiting efforts. Indeed, the FDN claims to have grown from 6,000 to more than 14,000 men. Though the contras suffer from occasional equipment shortages, about $10 million in private donations from conservative groups in the U.S., Taiwan and South Korea have largely made up for the lost...
...mutual problem took Red Cross representatives from North Korea over the border to talk with their counterparts in the long-hated South last week. It was the plight of some 10 million people who have been separated from their families, unable even to write letters to one another, since Korea was partitioned at the time of its liberation from the Japanese in 1945. The meeting got off to a rocky start when North Korean delegates refused to allow their South Korean hosts to show them the new sports complex in Seoul, where the 1988 Summer Olympic Games...
...since 1964, it can be carried by one man and is designed to destroy dams, bridges and similar installations. According to William Arkin, a defense specialist with the Institute for Policy Studies, a private Washington-based research organization, the U.S. has about 400 of these devices in Europe, South Korea, Guam and the U.S. Until recently, the military also produced a 400-lb. nuclear device, the medium atomic demolition munition (MADM), capable of destroying a medium-size city...
...since Congress cut off contra funding in May 1984, conservative groups in the U.S. have been soliciting money and supplies for the rebels' fight against the Sandinista regime. The main figure in that effort is Singlaub, 63, who was dismissed as Chief of Staff of U.S. forces in South Korea in 1977 after a dispute with President Carter. Adolfo Calero, commander of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (F.D.N.), the largest contra group, claims that Singlaub's network of U.S. and foreign supporters has raised the lion's share of cash and supplies valued at "close to $10 million." Substantial assistance, says...
Singlaub also draws on WACL affiliates in 36 countries, particularly those in Taiwan and South Korea. The Taiwan chapter, which is close to the ruling Kuomintang, has raised at least $100,000 so far, mostly from private sources. This is a delicate effort, since Nicaragua is one of the few countries in the world that retains diplomatic relations with Taipei. Contributions also come from Central American nations, Paraguay and Saudi Arabia...