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This time the mourning was for 17 South Koreans, including four Cabinet ministers and ten key government officials, who had been killed when a bomb ripped through the Martyr's Mausoleum in the Burmese capital, Rangoon. The South Korean delegation had gathered at the site for a wreath-laying ceremony at the beginning of what was to have been an 18-day tour of South Asian and Pacific countries. South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan, 52, the apparent target of the attack, had not yet arrived at the ceremony and escaped unharmed...
...PRESENT LOCATION of the United Nations does more than just bolster America's prestige and its claim to be the world's premier power, the New York site also draws to the United States all the world's leaders and top diplomats, enabling them to see American pluralism firsthand. The United Nations' proximity to the nation's capital gives the United States an unqualified edge in the diplomatic world; a short hop to Washington, D.C. allows foreign dignitaries visiting the United Nations to meet their American counterparts for important bilateral consultations. And contrary to the President's appraisal of American...
...entire Senate is expected to approve the donation, and the University's Buildings and Buildings Names Advisory Committee will vote on the proposed memorial site Friday...
...construction is proceeding only after a six year struggle between developers and neighborhood residents. When Carpenter and Co. submitted its first plan for the site in 1977 community activists protested that the proposed project stressed retail use, which would generated additional traffic on the already congested streets in the area...
...1970s a similar protest arose over the proposed John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, which would have been built on the same site formerly known as Parcel ib. Because of community pressure the library site was moved to Columbia point in Boston...