Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like a lap dancer in a go-go bar, North Korea doesn?t have time to sit down and talk if there?s no reward involved. Earlier this year the U.S. had to agree to an aid package in order to get access to Northern nuclear facilities; more recently, South Korea had to promise a large shipment of fertilizer to coax its neighbors to talks in Beijing Monday on allowing some 10 million Koreans to reunite with family members they?ve not seen in four decades because of the war. But then bad weather prevented the South Korean freighter carrying...
...determination to have their own way. "Hard-liners in the North are thought to oppose family reunions because they fear any contact with the outside world," says TIME Tokyo correspondent Tim Larimer. "Pyongyang needs money, food and fertilizer but it doesn?t want strings attached," he adds. "Whenever North Korea has edged to even the mildest form of engagement with the outside world, it has preceded such moves with a show of force." In other words, Pyongyang only wants help from benefactors whose hands it can bite...
...organization that prides itself on showcasing agility and swiftness, but as its president once again demonstrated on Wednesday, the International Olympic Committee is an organization that values inertia above all. Addressing a committee gathering in Seoul, South Korea, Juan Antonio Samaranch firmly announced he would stay at the helm of the scandal-plagued organization at least until his term expires in 2001 and declared: "We say no to hasty reforms to please our critics." Samaranch said the IOC had already carried out many of its promises, including a housecleaning of 10 members accused of accepting improper inducements from Salt Lake...
...20th century can be called many things, but it was most certainly a century of war. The American G.I.s helped defeat fascism and communism. They came home in triumph from the ferocious battlefields of World Wars I and II. In Korea and Vietnam they fought just as bravely as any of their predecessors, but no triumphant receptions awaited them at home. They soldiered on through the twilight struggles of the cold war and showed what they were capable of in Desert Storm. The American people took them into their hearts again...
...volunteer G.I.s of today stand watch in Korea, the Persian Gulf, Europe and the dangerous terrain of the Balkans. We must never see them as mere hirelings, off in a corner of our society. They are our best, and we owe them our full support and our sincerest thanks...