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Word: yon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bitter that the diplomatic world considers it an important step when the two sides merely talk about talking. Thus there was muted applause last week when the North Korean government agreed to send a delegation to Panmunjom on Feb. 8 to discuss arrangements for a meeting between Prime Minister Yon Hyong Muk and his South Korean counterpart, Kang Young Hoon. Seoul had proposed such a meeting last year, hoping for an eventual summit between South Korean President Roh Tae Woo and North Korean President Kim Il Sung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: Talking About Talks | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...eastern part of the Yard, they made living there a burden. "The College Yard was a great scene for demonstrations and marches. Practically every day there was a march in the Yard; almost any day you would find a group of students marching up and down, hither and yon. I don't think he [Bok] wanted to live with it," says Minister in Memorial Church Peter J. Gomes, then a Divinity School student...

Author: By Mary C. Warner, | Title: Little House in the Big Yard | 3/17/1983 | See Source »

...Yon, san, ni, ichi',"went the countdown last week, "four, three, two, one." At "zero," Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone aimed a glove-covered finger at a button in his Tokyo residence. The prime-ministerial pressure detonated a dynamite charge 440 miles north of Tokyo and 780 ft. beneath the Tsugaru Strait, which separates Honshu and Hokkaido islands. The blast blew away the final rock separating two pilot tunnels under the strait that have been boring toward each other for the past 18 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Down the Tube | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

Martha Von Bulow is still in a coma in a New York hospital. Claus yon Bulow would have inherited $14 million had his wife died and had he not been convicted of the attempted-murder charge...

Author: By Marns F. Cohen, | Title: Dershowitz to Argue Von Bulow Appeal | 11/20/1982 | See Source »

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