Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Northrop has been promoting the F-20 as a less expensive and more reliable alternative to General Dynamics' widely used F-16. The Tigershark's reputation had already suffered from a crash last October in South Korea, although investigators blamed the accident on pilot error. Last week's disaster left Northrop with only one prototype. Still, Chairman Thomas V. Jones vowed to renew his efforts to sell the aircraft...
...longest-standing and strictest American trade restrictions are those against North Korea, which has been under a U.S. embargo since 1950. Sanctions against Viet Nam go back to 1954, and those against Kampuchea to 1975. These countries and Cuba face an American denial of all trade, travel and finance. Various U.S. economic restrictions have been imposed on other countries, including Libya, Iran, Iraq, South Yemen, Syria and South Africa...
...million mail blitz is only the latest tactic in a $30 million cosmetic campaign being waged by the Moon movement. The church was founded in South Korea in 1954 and now claims 3 million followers worldwide, a figure that some outside researchers consider inflated. The propaganda program has been taking place while Moon, 65, is serving an 18-month term in the Danbury, Conn., federal prison for income tax fraud; he is due for release...
...move had been expected since parliamentary elections two months ago, but the speed--and the numbers involved--caught the country by surprise. In 48 hours last week, South Korea's largest opposition group, the New Korea Democratic Party, was strengthened by the entry of more than 30 Deputieselect from other opposition factions. The defections, mainly from the Democratic Korea Party, gave the N.K.D.P. 102 seats in the 276-member National Assembly, more than the one-third required to exercise real political power...
When parliament convenes later this month, the N.K.D.P., guided by Kim Young Sam and Kim Dae Jung, South Korea's top antigovernment leaders, will thus have the clout to block constitutional amendments, bring no-confidence motions against Cabinet ministers and call emergency sessions of parliament. The consolidation will make it virtually impossible for President Chun Doo Hwan's ruling Democratic Justice Party to play opposition groups off against one another...