Word: panels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...single seven-year term as President. He agreed to open negotiations on a series of constitutional and electoral reforms. The parliamentary opposition, led by Kim Dae Jung and Kim Young Sam (see following story), had as its main goal the abolition of South Korea's electoral college, a panel of more than 5,000 elected delegates that chooses the President. Instead, the opposition wanted direct elections for a chief executive. The electoral-college system favors the ruling party, according to its critics. Since an elector is allowed to change his announced vote at the last minute, they say, the government...
...submit to interrogation by staff lawyers, as have all other witnesses, in closed sessions that were to begin last Thursday. His lawyer, Brendan Sullivan, argued that in private interrogation North would not have the limited immunity from prosecution that he has been guaranteed as a witness before the full panel...
...Simply questioning North in public session could still produce an effective, if longer, interrogation, said Inouye. Lawyers for both sides discussed a compromise that would have North submit to limited questioning in private, but no agreement had been reached at week's end. Lee Hamilton, chairman of the House panel, indicated he and his colleagues would resist any plan under which "North would be dictating the procedures...
...solicited funds from foreign countries for the Nicaraguan contras. In fact, Abrams himself had requested a contribution of $10 million from the government of Brunei, but he testified last week that he was not "authorized" to tell Congress the truth on the matter. Abrams also told the panel that Secretary of State George Shultz considered North to be a "loose cannon" and that he had been instructed by Shultz to "monitor Ollie." Yet, Abrams said, "I was careful not to ask Colonel North questions I did not need to know the answers...
While members of the Young Committee have emphasized that the committee will not examine the current election, the seven-person panel may look at long-term policies governing election procedures and petition candidates. Young says that petition candidacies come under the rubric of the committee's mission, but will not say how much scrutiny will be given to them...