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...more than a dozen cities, students erupt in a frenzy of defiance against the six- year rule of President Chun Doo Hwan. But even though middle- class housewives and businessmen have joined the protests for the first time, the political opposition remains weak and divided. Despite the violence, the 1988 Summer Games are set to go on as planned -- and splendidly. See WORLD...
...cars, the fur coats, the alleged secret funds from PTL? He refuses to answer. "I have about $50,000 cash to my name, and my daughter has $50,000 saved from her music work, which she'll probably loan me if I need it." The thought makes him erupt into laughter. Then the sad face again. "Together our family has about $100,000," he says. He reddens at this sudden turn in the conversation and reaches for his Bible. The flash of anger across his cheeks is palpable...
WORLD: South Korean students erupt...
...puts the microphone around his neck and bumps it on tables, chairs and the podium, causing a horrible noise and lots of feedback to erupt over the loudspeakers in the lecture hall. He turns the volume up, then down and then finally takes the mike off. He decides to talk loudly instead of using the microphone and asks if people in the back can hear. They say no, but he can't hear them and therefore keeps on lecturing without missing a beat...
Senators needed only to look across the Capitol for an example of the chaos that can erupt when seniority is ignored. In a rare coup, Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin two years ago seized the chair of the House Armed Services Committee from Illinois' Melvin Price, then 80. Without the seniority shield, Aspin was himself toppled this year by his party's caucus. He had alienated liberals by supporting the MX missile and the contras, and offended many by his general tactlessness (he likened former Speaker Tip O'Neill to a "beached whale"). After two weeks of frenzied campaigning...