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This time the mourning was for 17 South Koreans, including four Cabinet ministers and ten key government officials, who had been killed when a bomb ripped through the Martyr's Mausoleum in the Burmese capital, Rangoon. The South Korean delegation had gathered at the site for a wreath-laying ceremony at the beginning of what was to have been an 18-day tour of South Asian and Pacific countries. South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan, 52, the apparent target of the attack, had not yet arrived at the ceremony and escaped unharmed...
South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan was running a few minutes late for the wreath-laying ceremony at the Martyrs' Mausoleum in Rangoon last Sunday. As they waited for his arrival, high-ranking South Korean officials chatted quietly with their Burmese hosts. Suddenly, an earsplitting explosion cracked through the one-story building, blowing the center of the roof skyward. Within seconds, a scene suffused with the orderliness of diplomatic protocol was transformed into bloody chaos: smoking ruins, survivors screaming hysterically, others racing frantically from the building to seek help. The toll of the blast, apparently caused by a bomb...
Most of all, Mao is gone. It is as if the city had been sponged of him and his "personality cult." The giant 40-foot-high portrait still hangs above the vermilion Tiananmen. But he now rests silent under a scarlet coverlet in the colonnaded mausoleum that dominates the great square...
...silver-haired Chernenko, 71, was long considered a potential successor. But a few months after Andropov's designation as party leader, Chernenko dropped from public view, ostensibly to battle a bout of pneumonia. When he failed to appear for the traditional May Day lineup atop the Lenin Mausoleum, Moscow's active rumor mills began to speculate that he had lost another behind-the-scenes power struggle with Andropov. But once the more than 300 members of the powerful Central Committee had retreated to their semiannual closed-door meeting last week, the official Soviet agency TASS revealed the dramatic...
...Moscow, meanwhile, rumors of a continuing power struggle resurfaced last week when Andropov's presumed chief rival, Politburo Member Konstantin Chernenko, 71, failed to show up at Lenin's Mausoleum for the May Day festivities. His office explained that Chernenko, who has not been seen in public since March 30, was suffering from pneumonia. Andropov, wearing tinted glasses, seemed tired and frail; two days later, when he presented Honecker with the Order of Lenin, his hands trembled, further fueling rumors that he is not well...