Word: taegu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week's bombing of the American Cultural Center in Taegu, the third largest city in South Korea, shows, the Philippines is not the only country on President Reagan's itinerary where some elements of the population view American support of the government as working against their interests. Only the tiniest minority of Korean citizens are truly anti-American, but a large portion of the population is now quite cynical about the American role in Korea's destiny. This cynicism is borne out of a rekindled national pride and frustration with Korea's insurmountable weakness in the face of superpower...
...with the speeches over, here they are, clustered around a piano in the Marriott Key Bridge Hotel, singing. Except for the gray in the hair, and a sagging of chests toward the belt line, the scene suggests (as it is meant to) a press billet in the city of Taegu, say, three decades ago when the United Nations forces were trying to hold the Pusan perimeter...
...first station is being built at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Others will be located near Taegu, South Korea, on the Hawaiian island of Maui, and at sites in the Indian Ocean and the Eastern Atlantic regions. Known as GEODSS (for ground-based electro-optical deep space surveillance), the system will provide almost live-action portraits of distant satellites and permit virtually instantaneous identification of any mysterious intruders in the night...