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Roh Tae Woo
Roh Tae Woo After serving as a rather obscure military leader for many years, Roh Tae Woo (born 1932) became active in the South Korean government following the coup by Chun Doo Hwan. It was his part in this coup which landed him with a 17-year prison sentence. In 1987 Roh was elected as the... Read more |
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Taejon
Taejŏn (Daejeon), South Korea A metropolitan city lying on the Taejŏn River with a name meaning ‘Big Field’ from tae ‘great’ or ‘big’ and chŏn ‘field’. It was a temporary capital of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) during... Read more |
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Reykjavik Summit 1986
REYKJAVIK SUMMIT A summit meeting of U.S. president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev took place in Reykjavik, Iceland, on October 11–12, 1986. This second meeting of the two leaders was billed as an "interim summit" and was not carefully prepared and scripted in advance as... Read more |
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Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev , 1931-, Soviet political leader. Born in the agricultural region of Stavropol, Gorbachev studied law at Moscow State Univ., where in 1953 he married a philosophy student, Raisa Maksimovna Titorenko (1932?-99). Returning to Stavropol, he moved gradually upward in the... Read more |
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thyrotoxicosis
thyrotoxicosis (th'y-roh-toks-i-koh-sis) n. the syndrome due to excessive amounts of thyroid hormones in the bloodstream, causing a rapid heartbeat, sweating, tremor, anxiety, increased appetite, loss of weight, and intolerance of heat. Causes include simple overactivity of the gland, a... Read more |
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Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko
Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko , 1909-89, Soviet diplomat. A member of the Communist party from 1931, he entered (1939) the diplomatic service, rising rapidly to become Soviet ambassador to the United States (1943-46) and chief permanent Soviet delegate to the United Nations (1946-48). He was (1952-53)... Read more |
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Freedom of Information Act
Freedom of Information Act (1966), law requiring that U.S. government agencies release their records to the public on request, unless the information sought falls into a category specifically exempted, such as national security, an individual's right to privacy , or internal agency management. The... Read more |
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ciprofloxacin
ciprofloxacin (sip-roh-floks-ă-sin) n. a broad-spectrum quinolone antibiotic that can be given orally or by intravenous infusion and is particularly useful against Gram-negative bacteria, such as Pseudomonas, that are resistant to all other oral antibiotics. It is also applied as eye drops or... Read more |
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Laura Bush
Laura Welch Bush American first lady Laura Welch Bush (born 1946), the wife of United States President George W. Bush, has been one of the most low–key presidential wives in recent years, but supporters praise her for her quiet strength. Bush was reluctant about her husband's foray into... Read more |
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August
AUGUST 1991 PUTSCH The August 1991 Putsch (August 19–August 21) was a hard-line communist attempt to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev, triggering the collapse of the USSR. On the morning of August 19, 1991, Soviet state television suddenly and ominously switched to playing classical music, a... Read more |
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