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President seems unwilling to go that far or to agree to a call by the two Kims for a "dialogue" between the opposition and the government. Nonetheless, by ending the ban, a vestige of the period of martial law that followed the assassination of President Park Chung Hee in 1979, Chun has helped to improve his image before his scheduled meeting in Washington next month with President Reagan...
...wife Lee Hee Ho, 22 U.S. companions and 50 journalists stepped off Northwest Airlines Flight 191 at Kimpo International Airport, they were met by about 50 security guards who tried to whisk Kim away. He refused to go along. He feared for his safety, he said, and preferred to proceed through normal immigration channels. After a heated discussion, the guards slammed Kim into an elevator and took him into custody. Several protesting Americans were shoved and punched. Among them: Democratic Congressmen Edward Feighan of Ohio and Thomas Foglietta of Pennsylvania, and Patt Derian, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights...
...fated journey last week was also designed to burnish Chun's image at home; since seizing power after the 1979 assassination of Park Chung Hee and winning the election of 1980, the President has yet to emerge as a truly popular leader. The explosion in Rangoon, no matter who was responsible, was bound to bring South Koreans closer together-if only, once again, in anguish...
...participation in Korean politics began when he was elected to the National Assembly. In 1961, he had become such a prominent member of the Korean National Assembly that he was imprisoned after General Park Chung Hee staged a military coup...
...kidnapped from Japan by the South Korean Central Intelligence Agency in 1973, two years after an unsuccessful presidential campaign. After that election, he accused the victor. Park Chung Hee. of vote fraud, and was viewed as a threat to the increasingly authoritarian Park regime...