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...held several posts in Chun's Cabinet. From 1984 to 1986 he was chairman of the Seoul Olympic Organizing Committee. But until recently, his nomination for the presidency was by no means assured. Within Chun's inner circle, Roh vied for power with Prime Minister Lho Shin Yong and Chang Se Dong, head of the Agency for National Security Planning, successor to the KCIA. Of the three, Chang, also a former general, seemed to wield the most power. But two weeks ago, both Chang and Lho were knocked out of the race when Chun dismissed them from office as part...
...National University student, Park Chong Chul, 21, suffocated in January while police were dunking his head in a bathtub during interrogation. Last week that death, and the cover-up scandal that followed it, forced President Chun Doo Hwan to shake up his Cabinet. He dumped Prime Minister Lho Shin Yong, the Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs and Chang Se Dong, head of the state security agency...
Panda mania ! All New York turns out for China' s newest ambassadors, Ling Ling and Yong Yong, as they settle into the Bronx...
WELCOME TO NEW YORK, PANDAS, said a handmade sign held up by one of several dozen waiting schoolchildren. HELLO, LING LING AND YONG YONG, said another. And even more to the point: NEW YORK IS THE PANDAS! Before Ling Ling (Ringing Bell), the male half of the team, and Yong Yong (Forever and Ever) go home at the end of October -- they are on loan from the Peking Zoo for only six months -- an estimated 2 million people (2,000 an hour) will have seen and no doubt fallen in love with them. "There's something special about pandas," says...
...Ling Ling, Yong Yong and the other actors in what might be called China's Traveling Panda Act -- two more will be lent to the Netherlands' Beekse Bergen park this month -- are meant to do more than entertain. Pandas also carry a message: they are an endangered species with a bleak future. Only a few, 700 or so, still roam the mountains of central China, and there are not enough in zoos to ensure their survival...