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SEOUL, South Korea: A three-judge panel sentenced former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan to death for mutiny and murder and sentenced his successor, Roh Tae-woo, to 22 1/2 years for participation in mutiny. The landmark decision puts a cap on an era of corruption and oligarchical politics that had gripped the country throughout the 1980's. The two convicted men were boyhood friends who rose through the military and as generals staged a coup in 1979, placing Chun into the presidency. Six months later, Chun ordered a brutal crackdown of pro-democracy uprisings in the Kwang...
...time is now, the right man to appeal to a public sick of platitudes. But his time may come and go before he knows it, given the hurdles he faces--financial, logistical--just to mount a third-party bid. He now has less than a week in which to woo at least 10% of the Reform Party's 1.3 million petition signers. If enough of them put his name on their draft ballots, he will be invited to speak at the party convention Aug. 11 in Long Beach, California. Then participants will vote by mail, phone or E-mail. Independent...
...killed us." A good deal of time was devoted to strategizing about how Yeltsin could stop the so-called "third force" from emerging. The two key third-force players were Grigori Yavlinsky, the leading democrat in the race, and the war hero Alexander Lebed. The team advised Yeltsin to woo his opponents publicly in order to boost their already inflated egos. "We thought that once they enjoyed the limelight, neither would be willing to drop out in favor of the other," Shumate explains. "Having them all in the race prevented the rise of a single, democratic alternative to Yeltsin...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: If Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington to woo Bill Clinton, as he hoped, he had a funny way of showing it. When the two emerged from a White House meeting Tuesday during Netanyahu's first U.S. visit as Israeli prime minister, Clinton appeared stiff as Netanyahu reiterated his campaign line, that security would come before peace. "Israel is eager to make progress, but we cannot to do it alone," Netanyahu said. "We want to live up to agreements but cannot be the only ones. We yield to no one in our desire for peace." Clinton, of course...
...unstable world of third-party politics, many local centurions originally attracted to Perot have grown skeptical that he's a suitable candidate. Unfortunately for Lamm, however, many of them now agree with Nicholas Sabatine of Pennsylvania, who as head of the National Patriot Party tried to woo several alternatives to Perot, including Colin Powell and Senator Bill Bradley. "I don't see anyone both willing and viable other than Perot," he concluded after a year...