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...spent some $3 billion on preparations for the Games. Moreover, it finished the work well ahead of schedule, whereas at Montreal in 1976 the readiness of the facilities was in doubt right down to the wire. The graceful, 100,000-seat Olympic Stadium on the bank of the Han River, site of opening and closing ceremonies as well as track-and-field events, was finished in 1984. Eight miles south of the city center, the 135-acre Seoul Sports Complex (completed in 1986) includes a boxing arena, swimming hall and 50,000-seat baseball stadium. Some two miles away...
...indictment or investigation, many on charges for thinly disguised political reasons. The new party has not even found a landlord willing to rent it space for a headquarters, forcing Kim Young Sam to joke that he "may have to pitch an extra-large tent on the bank of the Han River" for offices...
...English, Wu Hung plunged right into classes in the Anthropolgy Department. "Of course it was a culture shock," he says. "That first year I worked very hard, day and night, to learn the language." Wu Hung eventually elected to write his doctoral thesis on bronze funerary ornaments of the Han Dynasty for an ad hoc committee of members from both the Anthropology and Fine Arts departments...
...Han praised the recent increase in trade between the U.S. and China. Trade between the two countries rose from $6.1 billion in 1984 to $7.3 billion in 1985. But Han, whose talk was sponsored in part by the Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Students Association, said low oil prices and tough American textile quotas limit China's potential for growth...
...Han said there could be no "substantive improvement" in Chinese-Soviet relations until Vietnamese troops withdrew from Kampuchea and Soviet forces left. He said that the Soviets also must remove some of the "massive numbers of forces deployed on the Sino-Soviet border...