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...hopeful outbreak of meetings and discussions. For the first time the U.S. entered the fray in a major way. Assistant Secretary of State Gaston Sigur was dispatched on a hastily arranged three-day visit to Seoul with instructions to assess the situation and warn the government against a military crackdown. Chun, for his part, offered a major concession to his opponents. But opposition leaders rejected the President's peace offering and returned defiantly to the streets...
...Northwestern University law professor, ended a six-month White House search by accepting the $82,500-a-year position last week. Ruder has taught courses in SEC law and written extensively on securities, but some skeptics in Congress wonder if he is the "tough cop" needed to continue the crackdown on Wall Street's insider-trading scandal...
...that group. While the middle class embraces a work ethic that naturally abhors instability, it has begun to chafe under the strict, sometimes repressive rule of South Korea's military-dominated government. Last week's convulsions did not amount to a full-scale rebellion or draw a massive government crackdown. But the disturbances recalled the fate of South Korea's first President, Syngman Rhee, who was unseated by massive student demonstrations in 1960. The virulence and ubiquity of the protests were enough to give South Korean leaders a first-rate scare. Said Hyun Hong Choo, a Democratic Justice Party member...
...resolutely silent, conferring with top aides inside the Blue House, his official residence. Furthermore, perhaps to keep the students and their supporters in the opposition off-balance, he has allowed contradictory hints to be dropped about his next moves. One moment his associates are whispering darkly that a new crackdown is imminent. The next they are suggesting that talks with the opposition might be reopened. At week's end South Koreans thus had little idea what to expect in the immediate future...
...Hispanic), authorities have received more than 300 complaints about garage dwelling in the past eight months. In nearby South Gate, where some 4,000 garages provide shelter for 20,000 people, about 900 families have been evicted from backyards in the past three years. But a severe crackdown, officials agree, would only leave the unlucky completely homeless...