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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...
...Masaccio to Michelangelo, than with the euphuistic wreathings of late mannerism. He reclaimed the human figure, moving in deep space in all its pathos and grandeur, as the basic unit of art--the one that provokes the strongest plastic feelings by mobilizing our sense of our own bodies. He freed it from the musty envelope of allegory by % putting it in common dress and lighting it "realistically," from outside the picture...
Under the honor code, Girgus told the Times, "students as a community are responsible for their own and their peers' academic integrity." She added, "I don't think that anyone who witnesses a clear violation of the code can be freed of the obligation to report...
...senior political officer in the U.N. mission, who had the thankless task of supervising the mission's move from Park Avenue to East 67th Street. When Gromyko was shown the completed work that autumn, he spent more than half an hour stuck between floors in a faulty elevator. Finally freed, he decided that Timerbayev should have a new career. "Let him sit at the reception desk and keep an eye on the elevator to make sure it's working." The poor man occupied his new post for the rest of Gromyko's stay...
...million citizens are facing the threat of extreme hunger in the months ahead. In the southern part of the country, a rebellion waged by armed guerrillas against Nimeiri's high-handed Islamic rule is growing, and the provincial capital of Juba is in danger of attack. Though Nimeiri had freed almost 300 of his jailed political enemies in December and January, just over a week ago he publicly hanged one of his more persistent adversaries. Known as a wily survivor over almost 15 years of rule, Nimeiri has never before faced such a formidable array of challenges...