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...about a nice round of applause for Ellery J. Chun? Chun is credited not only with first using the term "aloha shirt" but with being the first to manufacture commercially those eye-glazing prints...
Ellery J. Chun: visionary...
From their fortified redoubt, they unfurled banners out the window (U.S. STOP SUPPORT OF THE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP, read one). They also scattered leaflets that condemned both the U.S. and the government of President Chun Doo Hwan. As 400 policemen surrounded the building, U.S. embassy officials moved to prevent a violent counterattack by reminding the government that Korean forces could not legally enter a U.S. diplomatic building. Calmly inviting U.S. diplomats inside for face-to-face conversations, the students delivered demands that centered on U.S. withdrawal of support from the Chun regime. Unless their appeals were met, they warned, they would...
...month, the N.K.D.P., guided by Kim Young Sam and Kim Dae Jung, South Korea's top antigovernment leaders, will thus have the clout to block constitutional amendments, bring no-confidence motions against Cabinet ministers and call emergency sessions of parliament. The consolidation will make it virtually impossible for President Chun Doo Hwan's ruling Democratic Justice Party to play opposition groups off against one another...
President Chun Doo Hwan last week abolished a four-year-old blacklist under which 14 leading South Korean opposition figures were banned from political activity. Among them were the country's two most important dissident leaders, Kim Young Sam, 57, and Kim Dae Jung, 60. The President's move freed the latter - Kim from the house arrest imposed after his return last month from exile in the U.S. But because Kim has 17 1/2 years left on a suspended 20-year sentence for sedition, he remains prohibited from engaging in politics. Thus Kim Young Sam may well outpace...