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...other officials. Not surprisingly, the three days of hearings further depressed relations between the U.S. and South Korea, which were already at an all-time low. Committee Special Counsel Leon Jaworski expressed the mood on Capitol Hill in his opening statement before the committee. The regime of President Park Chung Hee, he said, had "no right to cover up and obstruct our investigation," and he asked Congress to pass a resolution demanding that South Korea give its "full and unlimited cooperation" in providing "total disclosure" about any Korean who had sought congressional favors...
While Jaworski was talking tough in Washington, the Korean government was stonewalling a visiting team of U.S. law enforcement officials in Seoul. Assistant Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti and two associates sought a way to question Tongsun Park, Korea's Washington host with the most, who fled the U.S. before a federal grand jury indicted him on 36 violations of federal statutes, including bribery and fraud. After almost 30 hours of wrangling, during which the Koreans insisted they alone should control the interrogation of Park, the U.S. delegation returned home exhausted, frustrated and emptyhanded...
...Koreans' reluctance to allow Park to testify freely was understandable. In testimony before the House committee, Former Korean CIA Chief Kim Hyung Wook told how Park had been set up as the middleman in the U.S. rice trade with Korea by former California Congressman Richard Hanna, who was indicted two weeks ago for seeking bribes, and fraud. According to Kim, Park earned $9 million in the process-and was given full support by the Seoul government for his influence peddling in Congress. Witnesses also provided fresh details of President Park's personal role in the scandal. A former...
...memories, because remember how many times Dad used to drag me to Brown to see football games on Saturday afternoons. You know what, I don't think Brown ever won. And you know what else. I would have much preferred to stay home and play touch football in Buttonwood Park than see Brown-Lafayette games in Providence...
Sullivan, who has cut the women's Franklin Park record back at every home race this year, toppled the UMass course record by 58 seconds to 16:41 yesterday...