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...nearly a year the government and the opposition have been arguing the pros and cons of constitutional reform. Two weeks ago the opposition's two major leaders, Kim Dae Jung and Kim Young Sam, pulled out of the New Korea Democratic Party, the largest antigovernment group in parliament, because they felt the N.K.D.P. president was about to agree to a compromise supported by Chun. Citing the "mess in the opposition," Chun last week said he could not deal with a party unable to "resolve its own internal problems through dialogue." Critics charge that the president encouraged the divisions, negotiated only...
...students fill a political void that does not exist in some other East Asian countries. Japan, for example, permits dissent and has a vocal opposition that includes the Communist Party, which holds 27 seats in the national parliament, or Diet. But Koreans have no such democratic outlets. Kim Dae Jung, the country's most famous dissident, is barred from all political activity, and has been under frequent house arrest since returning from U.S. exile in 1985. Even left-wing books and pamphlets are officially forbidden...
...Africa of the animals is a sort of dream kingdom. Carl Jung traveled to East Africa in 1925 and wrote of a "most intense sentiment of returning to the land of my youth," of a "recognition of the immemorially known." Africa, he said, had "the stillness of the eternal beginning...
South Korean Opposition Leader Kim Dae Jung won about 45% of the vote for President in 1971, and ranks as a leading contender in elections to choose a successor to President Chun Doo Hwan, whose term expires in 1988. Last week Kim offered to jettison his longtime dream of occupying Seoul's Blue House, provided that the ruling Democratic Justice Party agreed to permit the direct election of the next President. Said Kim: "If I don't stand for the presidency in 1988, the government has no excuse to oppose direct elections...
...exactly 50 years ago, when the University was giving 60 or 70 honorary degrees to the world's top scholars," recalls Weinstein, who was then entering his sophomore year. "I had to translate a telegram from English to German for Jung's wife, who spoke only German. And I had had only one year of German...