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SEOUL: In a surprise move, North Korea moved to ease tensions on the peninsula by backing down from its earlier insistence that South Korean agents had actually kidnapped prominent defector Hwang Yang Jop. Instead, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said that if the key member of the Communist Party's Central Committee voluntarily went to the consulate, "he is a renegade and he is dismissed." The announcement followed assurances by South Korea Monday that it will send food aid and nuclear technicians to the North despite feelings that Pyongyang was behind the shooting in Seoul this weekend of a prominent North...
...should anyone invest in MoneyGram? Even before the company was rejected by other buyers, some of MoneyGram's biggest agent networks were fleeing. "It was like a piece of merchandise that didn't move, so we dropped it," says Tom Dingledy, spokesman for drug-store chain Revco D.S. Another defector, Greyhound Lines, struck a deal with, you guessed it, Western Union. Could MoneyGram carve out a niche and survive? Sure. But what are the odds it will really flourish? And at the proposed IPO price of $16 a share, or 21 times earnings, it isn't even cheap. But then...
...permanently into the Republican camp. While remaining formally committed to racial equality, Nixon made clear he would go slow on the federal enforcement of voting rights and integration. For his '68 campaign he also recruited prominent Southerners from the Goldwater circle, including South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, an early defector from the Democrats. Meanwhile, under the pressure from the long hot summers of racial riots, the antiwar and black-power movements and the gleefully patricidal youth culture, the New Deal coalition fractured further. Not just white Southerners, but also blue-collar ethnics, tradition-minded by instinct, realized they were Republicans...
...party's return: the refusal of other expatriate dissidents to embrace General Kamel as their leader left him isolated and unhappy, says MacLeod. "Also, after warmly welcoming Kamel to Jordan and ensconcing his family in a lavish royal palace, King Hussein gradually distanced himself from the Iraqi defector...
...investigations into whether its executives lied to Congress about the harmfulness and addictiveness of their products. "Wigand, the former head of Brown and Williamson's research unit, is apparently a top-notch scientist," says TIME's Michael Riley. "But more importantly, he's now the industry's highest-ranking defector. He knows the inside story, and he's going to tell it. That could spell real trouble for the tobacco industry, whose hard-nosed tactics with Congress and the press and in the courts have so far helped protect...