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...Cities has a reputation for being a very lean company. They have no corporate legal department, they have no personnel department--none of the accoutrements of a big corporation." Capital Cities may take a knife to the $750 million that ABC executives fancied spending on the Summer Olympics in Seoul in 1988. That is more than twice what ABC has agreed to pay to cover the Calgary Winter Games that year...
Peking reacted to South Korea's harboring of the stricken vessel by putting its forces on alert; Seoul quickly did the same. Three Chinese warships, sent to retrieve the fugitive boat, entered South Korean waters, and the Koreans sent ships and jet fighters to intercept the interlopers. But the tense situation was quickly defused by U.S. diplomacy late on Friday. "We were asked to convey messages between the Chinese and the Koreans," commented a Washington official. Though China and South Korea do not maintain diplomatic relations, they have been edging toward a rapprochement. Neither side, it seems, wanted to allow...
...Sheehan is thinking of even greater challenges. After having taken one semester off to train for the Olympic trials in the mile his sophomore year, the first semester senior is planning to make a serious run for Seoul...
...Ambassador Richard ("Dixie") Walker, a political appointee, defended his embassy's role in the event. He said that the mission had worked out arrival details with the Seoul government but that the arrangement "was not honored." The embassy, he said, had done "much more than it usually does to assist American citizens because we knew this was an event with potential for serious trouble...
There was no indication that the South Koreans would apologize to the U.S. delegation, which, South Korean officials explained, had come to Seoul in a private capacity. "Do these Americans consider South Korea a colony?" asked one senior member of Chun's government. "This shows contempt...