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...President of South Korea. What a surprise. There was only one candidate, and his acceptance speech had been printed and distributed even before the vote took place. At 2 p.m., the convention cast 7,260 votes for Party Chairman Roh Tae Woo, the handpicked successor of President Chun Doo Hwan and the almost certain winner in the national elections planned for December. By 5 p.m. thousands of demonstrators had poured into the streets of Seoul and 21 other cities to protest the nomination...
...nominating convention was a week away. The election would not be held for months. But in the authoritarian political system of South Korea, the vote that counts most is that of President Chun Doo Hwan, 56. Last week Chun gave his official blessing to the man who will likely be South Korea's next President: Roh Tae Woo, 54, a retired army general and chairman of the ruling Democratic Justice Party...
SEOUL, South Korea--Thousands of protesters hurling rocks and firebombs fought riot police in Seoul and other cities yesterday to protest the government party's confirmation of President Chun Doo-hwan's handpicked presidential candidate...
...Seoul National University student, Park Chong Chul, 21, suffocated in January while police were dunking his head in a bathtub during interrogation. Last week that death, and the cover-up scandal that followed it, forced President Chun Doo Hwan to shake up his Cabinet. He dumped Prime Minister Lho Shin Yong, the Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs and Chang Se Dong, head of the state security agency...
Angry mobs disrupt campuses in violent demonstrations against President Chun Doo Hwan' s decision to postpone electoral reform. -- Projections indicate that Aquino' s slate won an overwhelming victory in the Philippine elections. -- A peace initiative threatens to topple Israel' s unity coalition. -- The trial opens for the accused "Butcher of Lyons." -- A coup shatters paradise in Fiji...