Word: seoul
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That attitude may well have induced the committee's potential star witness, Rice Broker Tongsun Park, to surface at a press conference in Seoul last week nine months after he fled from Washington to London to avoid questioning. The Korean Central Intelligence Agency presumably arranged Park's flight from London to Seoul to keep him out of Jaworski's way, and then stage-managed his press conference as well. As one of Park's old Washington cronies observed, "He said not a word in Washington or London. Then he gets to Seoul and holds a press...
Parrying questions for 50 minutes in his corporate conference room in Seoul, Park said he had returned home "under very tragic circumstances." His mother was extremely ill and could not possibly get better until she "saw my face." Why, he was asked, was he so cozy with so many Congressmen? "I was extremely active in social circles," he said. "For me to know prominent politicians or even Cabinet members or people in the White House is nothing unusual. That happens to be my hobby." Did he use his fees from rice deals to give kickbacks to Congressmen...
...incident began when the crew of the twin-engine CH-47 Chinook apparently lost its way on a routine flight from Camp Humphreys, 40 miles south of Seoul, to a supply depot near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). As Presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell later explained, the helicopter's crew seemed to have made "a navigational mistake [and] veered north at the eastern...
Piddling Sums. According to Justice Department officials, Park reported to Seoul that he was buying up Congressmen right and left, but the probes have so far found that he gave only piddling sums to about 20 legislators, usually as campaign contributions. Donations went to at least three former Congressmen: $22,500 to Richard Hanna of California and undisclosed amounts to Cornelius Gallagher of New Jersey and Otto Passman of Louisiana. The wife of Edwin Edwards, then a Congressman and now Governor of Louisiana, got $10,000. Other contributions included $4,650 to John Brademas of Indiana, deputy House Democratic leader...
...Justice Department has also asked if Park would talk to its agents in the safety of his London sanctuary. It is an offer he will probably refuse, but it reflects how desperate the investigators are for information about the sly and skillful stinger from Seoul...