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...have the true chugalug spirit of a bar band--you can almost hear the beer bottles whistling past their heads during some of the tunes on this rambunctious album--but they also have the musical chops of a top session group and the considerable singing and songwriting talents of Kim Wilson, who also blows a mean blues harp. There is a lot of inbreeding in the T-Birds' music: Zydeco, blues and rock, Keith Richards and Bob Wills. But the sound they tap out of all this is righteous and roughhouse, good enough to get even the bouncers dancing...
MEMBERS WHO HAD BEEN PLACED UNDER HOUSE ARREST, INCLUDING KIM Dae Jung, South Korea's most prominent dissident. At the luncheon meeting, Chun even acknowledged the "excessive measures" of the police...
Chun's proposal represented a major shift. Yet, as Kim Dae Jung put it, "In his fundamental political posture, there have been no changes at all." The President agreed that his ruling Democratic Justice Party would, for the first time, rewrite the constitution--but once again, not until after 1988. The opposition response: if the 1988 presidential elections come under the current constitution, which leaves the voting to an electoral college likely to be dominated by members sympathetic to Chun's party, Chun will be able to handpick a successor. Chun replied that the President elected in 1988 would...
Opposition Leaders Kim Dae Jung and Kim Young Sam, along with the N.K.D.P., have already rejected Chun's compromise on the constitution. Says Kim Dae Jung: "Chun talks of stepping out of office in March 1988 and of what should be done after that. But that should be none of his business." Both Kims support renewing the campaign to get 10 million people, or 25% of South Korea's population, to sign an opposition petition calling for direct presidential elections...
...leaders. Its aim: revision of the 1980 South Korean constitution to allow direct election of the President, instead of the current electoral-college system, which allegedly favors Chun's ruling party. Chun, for his part, wants a moratorium on political reform until after the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. Scoffs Kim Young Sam: "To say that the nation should absorb all the government madness until 1988 is to say that Korea could go to pieces after the Olympics...