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...John J. Moakley, D-Mass., delivered the keynote address, and physicist Se Hee Ahn, president of Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, received an honorary degree...
...KOREA LUNCH AT THE BLUE HOUSE Chun ends a crackdown and talks reform with his opponents TWO WEEKS AGO, SOUTH KOREA'S PRESIDENT CHUN DOO HWAN DID SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY LAST WEEK: HE INVITED TOP OPPOSITION LEADERS TO JOIN HIM FOR LUNCH AT THE BLUE HOUSE, THE PRESIDENTIAL RESIDENCE IN SEOUL, IN AN EFFORT TO "SHIFT FROM CONFRONTATION TO DIALOGUE." AS A SIGN OF GOOD FAITH, THE EX-GENERAL RELEASED THE 270 OPPOSITION...
...caught Chun's opponents by surprise. Only days before, the President had unleashed police to suppress a petition calling for constitutional reforms that was being circulated by the New Korea Democratic Party, the largest opposition group. The government's position: no discussion of the subject until after the 1988 Seoul Olympics and presidential elections. Last week, however, Chun changed his mind. At lunch with Lee Min Woo, leader of the N.K.D.P., and other politicians, he offered to consider writing a new constitution, though on his own terms...
officials also temporarily detained Kim Young Sam, a leader of the opposition New Korea Democratic Party, and 270 followers, 77 of them representatives in the National Assembly. Meanwhile, about 1,000 police surrounded the N.K.D.P.'s downtown Seoul headquarters, preventing a party meeting from taking place...
...opposition leaders. Its aim: revision of the 1980 South Korean constitution to allow direct election of the President, instead of the current electoral-college system, which allegedly favors Chun's ruling party. Chun, for his part, wants a moratorium on political reform until after the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. Scoffs Kim Young Sam: "To say that the nation should absorb all the government madness until 1988 is to say that Korea could go to pieces after the Olympics...