Word: seoul
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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...
...deliver the elusive wheeler-dealer to the U.S. for questioning before the House Ethics Committee by Special Counsel Leon Jaworski. But the Korean leader has turned aside repeated inquiries by U.S. diplomats about Park, often citing an unwillingness to abridge his "human rights." Rejecting the latest entreaties from Washington, Seoul's Foreign Minister Park Tong Jin observed curtly that "as a fully sovereign and law-governed nation, Korea finds no reason to turn over one of its nationals merely because he is suspected of having violated foreign law." Tongsun Park, who left London for Korea in August just...
...extradition treaty with South Korea. But Tongsun Park was clearly operating at least part time on behalf of the Korean CIA before he fled Washington last fall to avoid questioning, and Seoul surely could serve him up if it seemed necessary to appease American critics. Seeking to show that that kind of appeasement might be necessary, a freshman New York Congressman, Bruce F. Caputo, urged the House to lop off $110 million earmarked for South Korea in a foreign aid appropriations bill. Caputo's amendment was defeated by a vote...
Caputo insisted that the unexpectedly close vote "definitely was a signal" to Seoul to cooperate in the influence-peddling investigation. But there was no sign that the Koreans would read it that way-or should. The White House does not want to threaten to reduce or eliminate aid. The decision to start pulling out part of America's 33,000 ground troops from South Korea by next year has bothered the U.S.'s other Asian allies, notably Japan. Also, the Koreans still have plenty of friends in Congress. In another move last week, the House decided...
...course, it was O'Neill who, only last July, had talked Jaworski into taking charge of the Ethics Committee investigation. Jaworski may still believe, as his deputy Peter White insisted last week, that there will be "tremendous resentment" among Americans if Seoul does not cooperate. Yet many Congressmen wondered, with reason, if their constituents really care that much; and there was no doubt that some of the lawmakers were just as happy that Tongsun Park in all probability would never come back to talk...