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...attempt to assume total responsibility for the assassination, for which six accomplices were also charged. His plea was in vain. Last week Kim, standing haggard and unshaven before a military tribunal in Seoul, was condemned to death with six others for his abortive coup attempt, which was described by one of the defendants as having been "like a rebellion in a medieval court...
...keep the country on the path to normality after the trauma of the assassination. Yet Choi himself, who was formally inaugurated as President last week, the day after the Kim verdict, had far more on his mind than retribution for Park's slaying. For one thing, Seoul was still swirling with apprehensions in the wake of the stunning, couplike arrest of the former martial law commander, General Chung Seung Hwa, and a dozen other senior officers by a group of aggressive younger generals. For another, U.S. diplomats and military leaders in the capital who had previously stood aloof were...
...One court for the new game is a squat, U-shaped building that formerly housed the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group and is now called the American Institute in Taiwan. The A.I.T., manned by temporarily "retired" Foreign Service officers, hands out as many visas to the U.S. for Republic of China passport holders as did the old U.S. embassy. More important, it serves to nurture Taiwan's ever growing commercial ties with...
...home town. Carrying carnations, chrysanthemums and portraits of Stalin, they danced through the streets to the music of five marching bands. Others crowded into the newly refurbished Stalin museum in Gori, or gazed reverently at his statue atop a 10-ft. pedestal in Gori's main square-one of the last remaining statues of the dictator in the Soviet Union...
Many seem to miss the sense of national unity and purpose they felt under Stalin in World War II and the hope that peace would bring real freedom. For them, Stalin's birthday is an event to be remembered, if not celebrated. Says one Moscow intellectual: "The longing is not for Stalin himself; very few people approve of that style of leadership. It's the dream they miss...