Word: sams
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...they need more time to consider the prop osal. The daylong New York City summit stopped short of full peace negotiations, but provided the opportunity for the U.S. and South Korean delegations to lay out details of a plan proposed last April by President Clinton and President Kim Young Sam of South Korea to hold peace talks between the two Koreas, China and the United States. Despite North Korea's reluctance, the very fact that its increasingly isolated and insular government agreed to even limited discussions after 25 years of stubborn silence on the issue is considered a major breakthrough...
...authors determined the standings by looking at the tycoons' fortunes in relation to the country's total GNP. So even if Gates ratchets up the billions, the immensity of the economy makes it hard for him to move up very far. By the way, with the exception of Sam Walton of Wal-Mart (No. 14), everyone on the list ahead of Gates made most or all of his fortune before there was an income tax. Other living Americans on the list: Warren Buffett (39), John Kluge (70), Paul Allen (75), Sumner Redstone (87) and Ron Perelman...
...Sam Allis...
SEOUL, South Korea: Desperate to resuscitate his standing with the South Korean people, President Kim Young-sam Tuesday gave a nationally televised apology for the scandal that has driven his approval ratings below 20 percent. Speaking on the fourth anniversary of his inauguration, a somber Kim said he was "extremely sad, grim and sorry" over aides' involvement in the bribery scandal. Kim also banished his son, 38-year-old Kim Hyun-chul. "What troubles me is that the name of one of my sons is talked about in connection with this case," Kim said. "As other fathers in this world...
...SAM GWYNNE, our Austin bureau chief, has been covering labor issues for TIME on and off for the past nine years, first as Detroit bureau chief and later as national economic correspondent. His story this week on the dramatic showdown at American Airlines presented him with an unusual twist: the pilots' strike deadline came at just about the same time as our editorial deadline, so Gwynne had to fashion most of his story without knowing whether the pilots would walk out. "I reported it as though we were heading toward a major strike," he says, "while at the same time...