Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...communist regime came to power in North Korea after the peninsula was divided following World...
...military confrontation in the Pacific. The U.S. Pacific Fleet now squares off against a Soviet force that is the largest of Moscow's four naval units. From headquarters in Vladivostok, the Soviet Pacific Fleet covers a 1,200-mile maritime zone that stretches south from the Kamchatka Peninsula to Viet Nam's Cam Ranh Bay, the vast airfield-and-port complex developed by the U.S. during the Viet Nam War. The Soviet fleet includes two small aircraft carriers, twelve nuclear-armed cruisers and 180 combat aircraft. On any given day, 25 to 30 Soviet ships are docked at Cam Ranh...
...irony in his situation. Just last month the Prime Minister invoked the term ayamachi when he fired his Education Minister, Masayuki Fujio, for having infuriated half the Orient. In a magazine article Fujio claimed that Korea bore some responsibility for Japan's deeply resented 1910-45 occupation of the peninsula and, moreover, that Japanese atrocities in Nanking during 1937 were acceptable in the context of military conflict. Having fired his top educator for such a profound national and ethnic offense, Nakasone appeared to have stepped into the same minefield. At week's end the Prime Minister backtracked completely, expressing...
More important, there were unexpected Soviet failures to gloat over. An SS-N-8 missile, launched two weeks ago from a submarine in the Barents Sea and aimed at the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Siberia, went astray and, in an obvious malfunctioning of both its guidance and selfdestruct systems, landed more than 1,500 miles off course, most probably in northeastern China. The Soviets insisted the missile had landed in their own territory...
...possible. William Kramer had no such choice: he took off from Torrance Municipal Airport, just ten miles from LAX, and was heading across the city toward Big Bear Lake, a resort area some 90 miles to the east. Kramer, who had moved from Spokane to the affluent Palos Verdes Peninsula early this year, had been licensed to fly for six years but had logged only 231 hours in the air, most of them in Washington's relatively uncrowded skies. On the fateful Sunday morning, Kramer reportedly bought an up-to-date map of the terminal control area that surrounds...