Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...range free on the two greatest hits packages. The Sun Sessions, first released in 1976, is a seminal record. This new version offers alternate takes and outtakes, including an unlikely version of Harbor Lights, and makes a fascinating history of one scuffling producer (Sun Founder and Rock Pioneer Sam Phillips) and three good ole boys (Elvis, Lead Guitarist Scotty Moore, Bass Player Bill Black) groping toward greatness. "That's fine," says Sam Phillips after one take on Blue Moon of Kentucky. "Hell, that's different. That's a pop song now, nearly 'bout." All the difference, and all the history...
Reaction to Chun's about-face ranged from unreserved jubilance to dark skepticism. "This is the year of the political miracle," said Kim Young Sam, leader of the Reunification Democratic Party, the principal opposition group. "I think he has given us all that we wanted." The other major opposition leader, Kim Dae Jung, was more reserved. Having spent most of the past seven years in prison, under house arrest or in exile, Kim would go no further than to declare that "people's power has brought this about." Park Chan Jong, chairman of the main opposition party's policy committee...
Chun put Roh in charge of finding a political solution to the crisis, an assignment that few took seriously in a system dominated by presidential authority. Kim Young Sam, for example, insisted on meeting with Chun and pointedly refused to deal with his designated successor. But Roh began holding talks with lower-ranking members of the opposition, as well as a wide range of other South Koreans. Roh says he did not convey his momentous conclusion to Chun before going public with it on Monday. Longtime observers of the South Korean political scene, however, find that contention hard to believe...
...Young Sam, on the other hand, were already behaving as if the campaign were under way and they were its front runners. On the day of his speech, Roh journeyed to a national cemetery on the outskirts of Seoul and burned incense in honor of South Korea's war dead. Then he visited a military hospital at which riot police injured in the demonstrations are recovering, and a second hospital, where he commiserated with the father of a student lying in a coma as the result of an injury suffered in the protests. For his part, Kim visited two prisons...
...Young Sam may enjoy an overall advantage at the beginning of the % campaign, if only because he is seen by many South Koreans as the only alternative to an unhappy status quo. But he is widely distrusted by leaders of the student movement, as are most politicians, and has been criticized in the past as being pompous. Kim's biggest potential problem is a split in the opposition forces, which are riddled with internal disagreements. Such disunity could allow Roh to win office with a plurality but not a majority...