Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...package is designed to expand U.S. links with the island in anticipation of Fidel Castro's demise in the near future. The exile lobby is satisfied, but critics such as Warner point out that Cuba is getting rougher treatment than even Iraq and North Korea. Except, perhaps, when it comes to sports: The White House is backing plans by the Baltimore Orioles for an exhibition match against Cuba's national team in March. Of course, if they're hoping to thaw Cuban society, the Orioles had better throw the game -- Castro is a notoriously bad loser...
...August U.S. relations with North Korea soured again over (a) restrictions on imports (b) the launching of a new missile (c) refusal to issue film permits (d) treatment of political dissidents...
...almost have to feel sorry for the scientists at South Korea's Kyunghee University Hospital. In any other week the world's press would have trumpeted the news that they had taken a cell from a thirtysomething infertile woman, given it the Dolly-the-sheep treatment and created the world's first cloned human embryo. Sure, the researchers managed to generate a little buzz in the local press when groups like Green Korea United blasted them for meddling with Mother Nature. But around the world (and especially in the U.S.), their claim to fame was overwhelmed by colliding headlines about...
...Global balloon team may face yet another earthbound political threat: The winds are taking their craft straight toward the world's most closed and paranoid nation, North Korea. If they're fortunate, an atmospheric depression will steer them over South Korea instead. And from there, it's on to America, which the team hopes to reach by Christmas. From his perch 31,000 feet above the earth, Branson is no doubt wishing for the holiday to be a windy...
...crash has left Asian countries, companies and banks with manufacturing overcapacity and huge debts, which have to be reduced. That, says Hormats, "means more bankruptcies, more unemployment and continued recession for most of 1999" as the excesses are written off. But the free fall is over: Thailand and South Korea, in his view, might begin to grow a bit by the end of 1999, while Japan will improve--though only from negative to zero growth. General recovery region-wide will not begin until...