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...Seoul's Kimpo Airport was bright with flowers and women in traditional Korean hanbok dresses welcoming visitors to the tenth Asian Games, which began last week. Suddenly a bomb exploded in a metal trash basket outside the arrival area, ripping into crowds as they loaded baggage into cars and killing five Koreans...
...full-scale diplomatic crisis immediately ensued. The Chinese and North Koreans were indignant: the South Koreans postponed a joint foreign ministers' meeting, and the South Korean press even suggested that Nakasone's upcoming visit to Seoul be canceled. In the wake of the uproar, the Prime Minister found a new, less outspoken Education Minister...
...deficit. Moreover, Conable's activist view is a departure from the laissez-faire climate of Ronald Reagan's Administration. It might have been considered downright heretical until last October, when Treasury Secretary James Baker announced a new official line at a World Bank and International Monetary Fund meeting in Seoul, South Korea...
Until then, Washington's position was that the debt burden--some $415 billion owed by 56 African, Latin American and Caribbean countries alone--could be reduced through the adoption of tough austerity measures by the debtors under the supervision of the International Monetary Fund. At Seoul the so-called Baker Plan affirmed that longer-term economic growth among the developing countries also had a role to play. To spark that expansion, the Treasury Secretary proposed that the World Bank and other multilateral agencies loan an additional $9 billion to the most highly indebted Third World countries over the next three...
...doused himself with kerosene and paint thinner. Shouting "Out with U.S. imperialism!" and "Out with police!" Lee Tong Soo, 22, a freshman at Seoul National University, set himself on fire and then jumped to his death from the roof of a school building...