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...good five-cent czar. My tentmate, Major Frank Burns, is even more amusing, if you get your laughs from psychotic paranoia complicated by a spine-wide streak of yellow. He thinks we're here to save Korea from the Koreans, and that when the war is over Seoul will be colonized by the Fort Wayne Kiwanis Club. I couldn't help breaking into a chorus of the Ethel Merman song: "There's no vinism like chauvinism like no vinism I know...
...scene of international camaraderie in Seoul's presidential Blue House last week was truly extraordinary. Following a formal state dinner, South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan, 51, and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, 64, retired for a "second session," a hard-drinking Oriental stag party. As the liquor flowed, the two leaders took turns belting out favorite songs at each other. Among Nakasone's three choices was a hit Korean romantic tune from 1961: Noran (Yellow) Shirts. For his part, Chun serenaded his guest with Kage O Shitaite (Searching for Your Shadows), a pre-World War II Japanese...
...unusual display was only one highlight of a lightning diplomatic foray by Nakasone that was intended to burnish Japan's political image, not only in Korea but also in Washington. During his 24-hour visit to Seoul, the outgoing Japanese politician who became Prime Minister seven weeks ago was laying some shrewd groundwork for his meeting with President Ronald Reagan this week. At a time of fraying U.S.-Japanese relations on such issues as regional defense spending and international trade, Nakasone was hoping to demonstrate that Japan intended to be a strong and stabilizing U.S. ally in Asia. Said...
...prickly relationship began to change almost as soon as Nakasone landed at Seoul's Kimpo Airport. For the first time since 1945, the Japanese Rising Sun flag was hoisted alongside South Korea's white, red, blue and black emblem atop the city's squat Capitol Building. Nakasone pledged that his country would grant $4 billion in preferential aid to South Korea and declared that "my visit may mark the beginning of a new and vital stage in our relationship." Replied Chun: "Your visit is a historic, indeed monumental, milestone in our relations." From Washington's point...
While he was in Korea, Schlesinger let competitive running slide for a while, until last March, when the first International Seoul Marathon was held. "I thought 'This is it, Dan, this is your last chance to run a marathon,'" he recalls. So the lanky 5-foot-10 130-pound runner dedicated four months to an intensive training schedule, running 10 miles twice a day and 15 to 20 mile jaunts on Sundays...