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...ashamed that I have to revive dark memories and reopen old wounds," said South Korea's former ruler Chun Doo Hwan, finally breaking the silence that followed his retirement in early 1988. Appearing before a special panel of the National Assembly, Chun, 58, accepted "moral responsibility" for the excesses of his seven-year rule. But members of the opposition exploded in protest when Chun denied responsibility for the 1980 deaths of 200 demonstrators in Kwangju and argued that the army had rightfully fired on a crowd. One legislator dashed to the witness stand, grabbed Chun by the arm and shouted...
...country, an Exxon plant in Baton Rouge, La., that normally processes 455,000 bbl. of crude a day. The accident, probably caused by a spark that ignited hydrocarbons released from a pipe, killed two workers and injured seven others. Company officials announced that the facility will partly reopen this week. Other installations also suffered shutdowns: Shell Oil closed two gasoline refineries in Texas and Louisiana and curtailed operations at an Illinois plant because of frozen equipment. Some facilities were operating at about half capacity...
Gorbachev also agreed to reopen diplomatic relations with the Vatican and discussed a possible papal visit to the Soviet Union sometime in the future. John Paul hedged on that, making his acceptance conditional upon some evidence of real improvement in the situation of Soviet Catholics. But the Pope did offer his endorsement of perestroika, all the while pressing home his "expectation" that Ukrainian Catholics would be allowed to exercise their faith fully and openly. The Ukrainian Church, which follows the Eastern liturgy but claims the Pope as its spiritual leader, was banned and driven underground by Stalin...
...even months to clean up and repair. The shattered portion of the I-880 freeway in Oakland will have to be torn down, and the Embarcadero Freeway, a double-decker that skirts downtown San Francisco, is riddled with cracks in the support columns. Officially, it is supposed to reopen next spring, but one structural engineer who has examined it says, "I'd never go back on that s.o.b. again. No matter how much they shore it up, there is no way to make it safe." Pier 45, the city's main fishing pier, was closed because inspectors found deep fissures...
...Reopen access to Export-Import Bank credits on terms available to other countries...