Word: pacificism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Speaking before a joint session of Congress this morning, South Korean President Kim Young Sam paid tribute to Americans who gave their lives during the Korean War. "On behalf of the Korean people, I would like to take this opportunity to pay my respects to the memory of those young...
On the other hand, Navy pilot John McCain, shot down over Hanoi in 1967, spent 5-1/2 years in enemy captivity, including 31 months in solitary. Brutally beaten and otherwise tortured, repeatedly on the edge of death, McCain survived by drawing on some fierce inner resource. When the North...
Despite his hectic schedule, Nagano has found time for a personal life. He married the Japanese-born pianist Mari Kodama in 1992. He still takes time out twice a year for a surfing holiday. Looking out over the Pacific Ocean from his hilltop home in San Francisco, he speaks wistfully...
South Pacific nations andeco-protestersin several countries denounced the storming of Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior II by French commandos on Sunday, but France stood firm in its controversial plan to renewnuclear testingin September. The 15-nation South Pacific Forum said the action, in which 150 commandoes used tear gas to...
In '60s newspapers and magazines, the Apollo astronauts were portrayed as heroes in the old mold: God-fearin', jut-jawed, steely-eyed missilemen, gazing into the skies they would soon conquer. These brainy jocks with their laconic C.B. chatter and their diplomas from M.I.T., Princeton, Caltech and Harvard were icons...