In 1960, in the aftermath of a devastating war, the exhausted south was one of the poorest countries in the world, with an income per head on a par with the poorest parts of Africa.

1960年，在毁灭性的战争之后，千疮百孔的韩国是当时世界上最为贫穷的国家之一，人均收入等同于非洲部分最为贫穷的地方。

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After narrowly losing a by-election in Oldham, he returned to the journalistic fray as a war correspondent in South Africa for the Morning Post during the second Boer war of 1899-1902.

丘吉尔在奥尔德姆选区的补选中以微弱差距落败，此后回归新闻记者的行列，在1899年至1902年的第二次布尔战争中，他担任《晨报》驻南非的战地记者。

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Then during the Wold War II, when the production of quinine in Java was controlled by Japan, a lot US Soldiers fighting in North Africa and South Pacific contracted malaria.

后来，在第二次世界大战期间，当爪哇的奎宁生产被日本控制的时候，很多在北非和南太平洋进行战斗的美国士兵染上了疟疾。

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His columns railed against the Vietnam War, Watergate, apartheid in South Africa and Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza.

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By the time of his death Mr Terre'Blanche, who once embodied the threat of a race war in South Africa, was a fringe ideologue, more of a figure of ridicule than of terror after serving a prison sentence for trying to murder a black security guard, and falling off his horse at a rally.

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The technology is not new, dating back to the 1920s and was used by Germany in World War II as well as South Africa during the apartheid era of isolation.

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