B. C. Koh, in Asian Surrey (Sept. South KOW? 1985),University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif. 94720.
On February 12, 1985, more than 20 million South Koreans (about 85 percent of all eligible voters) went to the polls-the highest turnout in 27 years. There they elected to the country's National Assembly 148 candidates from Presiclent Chun Doo 1-l~an's ruling Democratic Justice Party (DJP), 67 from the New Korea Democratic Party (NKDP), and 61 from other parties.
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I2oi1g lbefore his suicide in 1961, Ernest Miller Hemingway had be- come the subject of a sizable scholarly/journalistic enterprise. His death, however, gave the Heminqway "industry" new direction and added impetus: Why, biographers asked, had the great novelist taken his own life? Two of the more extensive explanations were offered by
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