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...allowed his embassy in Seoul (as well as in Tokyo) to go without an ambassador for a year. Not that the Koreans were helping. For months, they had refused to admit their problems or even provide credible accounting of their assets and liabilities. By November the embattled government of Kim Young Sam was refusing to explain to U.S. officials just how much money was left in its foreign-currency reserve. Along with negotiators from the IMF, Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers pushed Seoul to clarify its reserve positions. "If you don't want to tell me, that's fine," Summers...
...officials had one reason to be optimistic. That same day, in a defeat for the ruling party, longtime South Korean dissident Kim Dae Jung was elected President. Rubin and his guests stayed in contact with the White House through the dinner to coordinate the exact wording of President Clinton's congratulatory phone call that night to newly elected President Kim. Clinton told Kim that he had a brief window of opportunity with no room for false steps. Just to be sure, one participant in the dinner, Treasury official David Lipton, was dispatched to Seoul two days later to measure Kim...
...heat was barely on the morning of January 2, then it was suddenly turned off, and it didn't come back on for awhile," said David J. Kim '01, a resident of Wigglesworth Hall. Kim said he has been wearing his winter jacket indoors to keep warm...
Against the Friars, despite a sluggish first period, the Crimson gave itself a little bit more of a cushion to start out with thanks to two quick goals by sophomores Courtney Smith and Kim McManama...
...Reported by Julie Grace/Chicago, Kim Masters and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles