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...Married. Kim Novak, 43, sultry cinemactress (Bell, Book and Candle, Picnic); and Veterinarian Robert Malloy, 36, who began taking care of her horses last year; both for the second time; in a mountaintop pine grove near her home in Big Sur, Calif...
Within the past two weeks, the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) has arrested more than 30 of the country's leading dissidents. The most prominent prisoner is Kim Dae Jung, 50, the opposition leader who won 45% of the vote in the presidential elections of 1971 and has since been subject to almost continual government harassment-including a kidnaping in broad daylight from a Tokyo hotel by KCIA agents in 1973. Along with Kim, some 15 Christian clergymen were brought in to KCIA headquarters for interrogation, including Kim Kwan Suk, 57, the secretary general of the National Council...
...papers have printed one-sided accounts of other dissidents who have been locked away. Perhaps the most notable is the popular poet Kim Chi Ha, 35, who, after a brief month of freedom from one imprisonment, has for the past year been kept in solitary confinement in Seoul's West Gate Prison. He is accused of being a Communist-a charge Kim and his supporters deny...
Sometimes the demands for payoffs are presented directly and bluntly. A classic example occurred in 1970 in South Korea, where Gulf Oil has a $300 million investment in refineries and chemical plants. The late S.K. Kim, a power in the ruling Democratic Republican Party, called in Bob Dorsey, then Gulf president, who was visiting Korea. According to Dorsey, Kim "dived right into the matter and told me that we were doing exceedingly well out there and that basically, our continued prosperity depended on our coming up with a ten million [dollar] political contribution to the party." After much haggling, Gulf...
...million to politicians in South Korea, where Gulf has sizable operations. The question of whether to pay was tricky, because the line was so fine between bribery on Gulfs part and extortion by the Koreans. Dorsey described for the McCloy committee a meeting with South Korean Politician S.K. Kim: "He dived straight into the matter and told me that we were doing exceedingly well out there, and that basically our continued prosperity depended on our coming up with a $10 million political contribution to the party." (Dorsey bargained him down...