Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alamo 150 years ago, some 500 San Antonians and visitors gathered at a commemoration of the historic event last week. All the nearly 200 defenders, including Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, died at the hands of 4,000 Mexican troops. Little more than a month later, General Sam Houston defeated the Mexicans, and Texas had won its independence. The revelers heralded the Alamo's last stand with a deafening musket salute. But the sesquicentennial celebration had its irony. Today, more than half of San Antonio's population is still of Mexican descent...
...budget deficit to the $144 billion limit required by the Gramm-Rudman measure. But now a growing number of lawmakers are talking about including a third, relatively painless remedy: a onetime federal tax amnesty that would allow past evaders to clear their slates--and at least part of Uncle Sam's--in a single stroke...
...resolve Moscow's long-standing dispute with Japan over the islands the Red Army occupied late in World War II. The Soviets even made a bizarre eleventh-hour overture to Ferdinand Marcos, congratulating him on his "re-election" and seeking to capitalize on his estrangement from Uncle Sam...
Opposition Leaders Kim Dae Jung and Kim Young Sam, along with the N.K.D.P., have already rejected Chun's compromise on the constitution. Says Kim Dae Jung: "Chun talks of stepping out of office in March 1988 and of what should be done after that. But that should be none of his business." Both Kims support renewing the campaign to get 10 million people, or 25% of South Korea's population, to sign an opposition petition calling for direct presidential elections...
...revision of the 1980 South Korean constitution to allow direct election of the President, instead of the current electoral-college system, which allegedly favors Chun's ruling party. Chun, for his part, wants a moratorium on political reform until after the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. Scoffs Kim Young Sam: "To say that the nation should absorb all the government madness until 1988 is to say that Korea could go to pieces after the Olympics...