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Wedgeworth remembers in particular herexperience in a Korean class she took last year...
...People would be like, 'Why are you takingKorean?' I'd tell them I was Korean. My teacherswould be like, 'Oh, I didn't know," Wedgeworthsays...
Five people were arrested in the South Korean city of Taegu on charges of negligence in the Friday explosion of a gas pipeline that killed 100 and hospitialized 125 others. An investigation concluded that in violation of safety rules, construction workers had drilled a hole in a natural gas line. The gas poured into a water main near a construction site and was ignited by a welding spark. In a demonstration at Seoul National University, members of the opposition Democratic Party demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Lee Hong-koo and three other Cabinet ministers and called on President...
PIPELINE EXPLOSION KILLS 103: A spark from subway construction set off a natural gas explosion this morning in the South Korean city of Taegu. At least 103 people were killed, 60 of them teen-aged students. 200 others were injured. Critics of the government gas monopoly say the government has expanded its network of pipes too quickly, at the expense of safety. South Korean President Kim Young-sam said the explosion was a result of "carelessness...
Even so, any break in so murderous a conflict is welcome. And the truce in Sudan well illustrates the strange phenomenon of Carter diplomacy. This time, at least, nobody is likely to denounce it as an unconscionable bribe to an outlaw state, as some did the North Korean agreement Carter got started last June--or as helping to legitimize a band of killers, the view some took of the cease-fire he brokered in Bosnia in December. Nor will he be accused of undermining official U.S. policy, a charge still heard six months after his last-minute success in paving...