Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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StarLifter transports near Seoul for the long flight to San Diego, where the Navy had assembled their families from all over the U.S. One day before Christmas, the big jets landed at Miramar Naval Air Station, taxiing up to nestle their big black noses against ropes holding back the crewmen's families. The men disembarked, Bucher in the lead. "It's so great. You'll never know how great it is," he called out as he limped toward his wife. Then he embraced her for a long moment, tears running down his cheeks. When Hodges' coffin...
Others have written with an equal bitterness about the War, about estrangement, about the uncomfortable timidity of poets in America (I'm thinking of the anthology of Poets on Vietnam, Hayden Carruth's "On a Certain Engagement South of Seoul," or Berryman's "Formal Elegy" on the death of President Kennedy). Yet Wilbur has referred to these events in passing, as if to recognize their presence without allowing them to oppress his spirit, knowing the limits of indignations...
...Richard Long-worth of the Moscow Bureau of United Press International; Michael McGrady of Newsday, Long Island; Joseph Strickland of The Detroit News; John Zakarian of the Lindsay-Schaub Newspapers, Decatur, Illinois; Miss Gisela Bolte of the Time-Life Bureau in Bonn; O-Kie Kwon of Dong-A Ilbo, Seoul; Yoshihiko Muramatsu of the Tokyo Bureau of Hokkaido Shimbun; Harald Pakendorf of Die Vaterland, Johannesburg; and Pedronio Ortiz Ramos of The Manila Chronicle. The Editorial Page Cartoonist was George Amick of The Trenton Times...
Thieu's position, of course, would doom the talks before they started. Nonetheless, Johnson went out of his way during the week to assure Saigon-and other nervous allied capitals such as Seoul and Bangkok-that the U.S. was seeking what Thailand's Thanom called "a genuine peace which is not a facade covering a surrender." In a joint communique after two days of talks with Thanom, the U.S. and Thailand emphasized "their determination that the South Vietnamese people shall not be conquered by aggression and shall enjoy their inherent right to decide their own form of government...
...South Korea's second line of defense-and the real thorn in North Korea's side-is the continued strength of its economy. Despite the disruptions of war, the South Korean economy continues to grow at a rate of 12% a year. Foreign investors are flocking into Seoul and the countryside, including Motorola (electronic circuits), IBM (computers), and Fairchild Camera (transistors). Though U.S. aid still braces the Korean budget, the aid figure has dropped from $110 million in 1966 to $70 million last year. Within the next two or three years, South Korea expects to be economically...