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...With the Seoul Olympics only two months away, the nightmarish specter of a North Korean terrorist attack at the Games haunts South Korean officials. Thus South Korean President Roh Tae Woo proposed a dramatic improvement in North- South relations. He called for moves ranging from a resumption of mail service between the two Koreas to the reunion of families divided by the border...
Pyongyang last week denounced the offer as "nothing new" and repeated its own demand for a North-South conference on reunification. Seoul, which has condemned such a gathering as "unrealistic" and "impractical," said it will nonetheless continue to seek increased trade and diplomatic ties with the North and help Pyongyang join international organizations. In a further display of goodwill, South Korea halted daily propaganda broadcasts to the North at least until after the Olympics...
...Britain and Israel, Japan is the junior partner in one of the U.S.'s few truly special relationships. The two nations engage in ventures ranging from joint development of a $6.5 billion jet fighter known as the FSX to intelligence gathering on North Korean radicals in advance of the Seoul Olympics. "There will continue to be a tremendous mutual dependence between the U.S. and Japan," says Historian Edwin Reischauer, author of The Japanese Today and former U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo. "If they turned uncooperative it would be a disaster for us, but it would also be a disaster for them...
Former Harvard crew star Andy Sudduth '85 has earned a trip to Seoul, South Korea, as the United States' entry in Olympic single-scull rowing...
After graduating in 1985 with a degree in computer science, Sudduth gave up crew and took up single sculls. Considered the finest sculler in the world, he is favored to bring a gold medal home from Seoul. Sudduth beat three-time gold medalist Pertti Karpinnen of Finland in a regatta in Italy earlier this year...