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...difficult for me to believe that Jesse Jackson or anyone would want to boycott the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988. The absence of our athletes at the 1980 Moscow Olympics certainly has not hampered Soviet efforts in Afghanistan...
...sincerest wish is for Lee Han Yol to become the last person to die violently for the cause of democracy in our country." So said Opposition Leader Kim Young Sam last week following the death of the Yonsei University sophomore in Seoul. Lee, 20, had remained in a coma for 27 days after he was struck in the head by a pepper-gas canister during the demonstrations that jolted South Korea for three weeks last month. As the sole death among the tens of thousands of protesters who took to the street, Lee became an instant martyr to the revolt...
...banned from politics. Another group of 357 people jailed for politically related offenses was released; among them was the Rev. Moon Ik Kwan, one of the country's most prominent dissidents before he was found guilty of sedition following student protests last year in the city of Inchon, near Seoul. More prisoners are expected to be freed in the near future, though the government and opposition disagree on the exact number of offenders who are behind bars for strictly political reasons...
...before he is scheduled to leave office. Speaking to a routine session of party members, Chun announced that he was stepping down from his party post so he could devote full time to affairs of state, including the 1988 Summer Olympic Games, which are scheduled to take place in Seoul. He also wanted to make himself look less partisan. Said Chun: "We are winding up one era in Korea's political history and making preparations for another." It is the first time a South Korean President has resigned his party post since the country became a republic...
Emergency relief officials in Seoul said the southern coastal provinces of North Kyongsan and Kangwon were hardest hit by the typhoon...