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Washington took heart last week when South Korea's martial command announced that 85 colleges and universities, closed since the stormy student demonstrations of last May, were free to reopen. Another encouraging development was the appointment of Kim Kyung Won, 44, an internationally known political scientist who earned his doctorate at Harvard, as Chun's chief of staff. These moves raised hopes that Chun might be moving toward a more broadly based civilian government with greater tolerance for dissent. For the time being, though, the U.S. has to be content with a necessary ally from the same autocratic...
...discomfit conservatives. Thus when New York Republican National Committeeman Richard Rosenbaum urged convention managers to schedule a brief tribute to Nelson Rockefeller ("We have to make room for decency in politics"), he was rebuffed. Reagan's advisers reasoned that a tribute to Rockefeller, even though he is dead, might reopen the bitter ideological quarrel...
...residents were protesting Fierra's decision of last week to reopen hearings on the environmental effects of the plant's proposed diesel engines, which MATEP needs to be cost-and energy-efficient...
When school did reopen, all was peaceful, if not normal. Plain-clothesmen and community leaders walked the halls to quell fights, and the precautions prevented serious confrontations for the rest of the year...
Mission Hill residents plan to attend a Boston City Council meeting tomorrow night to urge the City to reopen tax and zoning negotiations with MATEP. The residents hope to drive up the plant's operating costs and force it to move...