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With the Seoul Olympics only two months away, the nightmarish specter of a North Korean terrorist attack at the Games haunts South Korean officials. Thus South Korean President Roh Tae Woo proposed a dramatic improvement in North- South relations. He called for moves ranging from a resumption of mail service between the two Koreas to the reunion of families divided by the border...
...just off of U.S. Highway 85. Thomasville, and North Carolina, have sided with Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party since 1980. This year, however, the polls show that the state is far from a lock for either party, and both Republicans and Democrats are working hard to woo voters in this state--one of those which could fall in the Democrats' column this time around...
...World War II, reunification has been an emotive issue for all Koreans. The problem became especially acute in South Korea last month, when a planned march by students to Panmunjom, on the dividing line, degenerated into clashes with police. Last week, in a nationally televised address, President Roh Tae Woo offered a six-point proposal to bring the two Koreas closer...
...past two years, and exports were up 75%. So far, Clayton Yeutter, the U.S. trade representative, is resisting the cries to stop selling grain overseas and preserve it for American markets. But if grain sales abroad must be halted, the frustrated overseas customers may be doubly hard to woo back when the granaries again bulge with surpluses -- as they will. When that day comes, farmers will complain and taxpayers will moan. And that is why farm policy is never settled...
...Vuitton luggage. The Prince discovers that even heaps of living cannot convert a slum apartment into a palace. The Prince takes a job as janitor in a fast-food joint and learns that good manners, noble bearing and even heroic action cannot overcome class distinctions. He tries to woo an uncommon commoner (played brightly by Newcomer Shari Headley) without revealing his identity, and encounters resistance from her father, who, since he is Akeem's boss, cannot help mistaking him for a toad...