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SEOUL, South Korea--The government's handpicked candidate, Roh Tae-woo, claimed victory today in the first direct presidential election in 16 years. The opposition rejected the outcome and called for protests...
...National Coalition for Democracy issued a statement calling for anti-government protests to reverse the election result. "We will not accept Mr. Roh Tae-woo's election through such a rigged election and will counter the undemocratic plot by rallying the peoples' power," the opposition alliance said...
Experts say Kim Young Sam appears to be gaining momentum as the middle-of- the-road candidate. Notes Han Sung Joo, a Korea University political scientist: "Both Kim Dae Jung and Roh Tae Woo are opposed by a majority of the voters. Kim Young Sam is clearly the most electable." He adds that the contest is becoming a race between Roh and Kim Young Sam. No one, however, is quite ready to count out Kim Dae Jung. Though Han believes Kim Dae Jung will capture little more than 30% of the vote, he could still win if the minor candidates...
...title of Larry Cohen's detective movie Love You to Death was changed before release to Deadly Illusion. Perhaps, even at this moment, some literate mogul is optioning the Don Quixote epilogue, in which a man, sure of his wife's fidelity, persuades his best friend to woo her, and the result is hot sex and violent death. Hollywood could even keep Cervantes' title for the tale: Fatal Curiosity...
...guarantees human rights. On the other hand, a formal split between Leading Dissidents Kim Dae Jung, 63, and Kim Young Sam, 59, dimmed prospects for an opposition victory next month, when South Korea holds its first democratic presidential election in 16 years. The rupture increased chances that Roh Tae Woo, the ruling party's candidate, would emerge the winner...