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...Japan conducts world's first large scale analog-TV broadcast from the Seoul Olympics...
Donald P. Gregg, president and chair of the New York based Korea Society, brought a very recent political perspective to the table. He spoke with South Korean President Kim Dae-jung in Seoul last week...
...perhaps along with Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan) who can determine the entire fate of economies with a few choice words. A man so influential and powerful cannot be accepting a $16,000 Samurai sword from Nagano or a $300,000 international peace prize from Olympic affiliates in Seoul. And he cannot do so without expecting the IOC rank-and-file to follow his example. The Barcelona gentleman should do what many have been calling on him to do: step down and accept responsibility for steering the Olympic movement in the direction it has taken under his leadership...
DIED. FLORENCE GRIFFITH JOYNER, 38, incandescent American sprinter and winner of three gold medals at the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics; of undetermined causes; in Mission Viejo, Calif. (see Eulogy, below...
Since setting that mark, no other female sprinter has come closer than 10.60. And at the Seoul Olympics, where she won three gold medals, she ran the 200 meter dash in 21.34 seconds, setting another seemingly unbreakable record. Only one other woman (Marion Jones at 21.62) has ever run 200 meters in less than 21.70 seconds...