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Show Thursday, September Korean festival reveals agony of divided nation By MARCUS ELIASON V Korean War. He hawked cigarettes, went to night school, married, had children and built up his business. He's 60 now, a bony man with warm eyes and a shock of gray hair. But the family with whom he should have been celebrating Chusok is beyond his reach. So he prayed to the five brothers and sisters from whom he has heard nothing for 43 years and to the parents he guesses have died of old age. "I have no regrets about escaping. I did the right thing. I only Associated Press Writer Z IMJINGAK, South Korea -;Every year during Chusok, the harvest moon festival, Ha grizzled head fills with road maps. ; Lying awake at night, he says, . he pictures the precise route he w ill take when the border finally comes .nlown, Korea is reunited, and he can go home again. y festival that During the fended last week, people like Ha, an affable cloth merchant from Seoul, become Korea's equivalent of Christmas orphans. While the Chang-imyung- 's ! five-da- . test of South Korea brothers and sisters were too young and I should go alone," he is wrapped up said. At a gate in the barbed-wir- e fence, a crowd gazed into the s k fir. By MICHELLE LOCKE . , Ha was a teen-age- r when he fled south in 1951 to escape being drafted by North Korea during the 1 1 u m . ' 4, ' - ! ''..; mem! AP Photo Those who have roots in North Korea bow to their parents in North Korea in front of the wire borderline at the Imjingak, north of Seoul. Millions Byong-hoo- 73, a retired school n, of people reunited with their relatives and paid respect to their ancestors' graves during the four-da- y Chusok Holiday last week. And yet, amid the melancholy, is a faint rustling of optimism. The death in July of Kim II Sung, founding father of the North there janitor. Both North and South Korea outlaw contact with the other, so there can be no letters, phone calls or faxes. The refugees often fled too hurriedly to pack a family photo. In 1985, North Korea allowed the first family reunification program It covered 50 people from Korean communist dictatorship, has raised hopes. Both Ha and Lee said the news made them happy, although Lee was cautious. "I can't help feeling that every time things seem to be going well, each side, and was never repeated. they take a sudden turn for the worse," he said. 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An unkempt man , approached him and said something like, "I have a deal for you, we have your daughter," Nelson said. ., Lin avoided the man and drove away. He got home to find both his -- TVrORTHFIELD! have large front, mid, and rear implements available that attach in two minutes or less. nd er Investigators believe whoever John Deere Products See SERIES free, . program. . On Quality ras: :crt television America s Most Wanted, which publicizes crimes to help police capture the criminals. But the phenomenon drew new attention last year when hundreds of volunteers poured time and money into a massive effort to find another Polly kidnapped child, Klaas of Petal uma. The search ended with the discov ery of Polly's body last December, but a foundation named after, her continues to serve as an advocacy group, offering advice to other victims' families, including the Lins, "I think it s very important for victims' families to get involved in investigations, and more particular ly, for volunteer organizations. said Marc Klaas. Pollv's father. "What we have done in the past in our society is to really leave it up to law enforcement to come up with all the solutions." of the effort for The nerve-centJenny Lin is a donated storefront office in Castro Valley. Pictures of a smiling Jenny, from a brace-toothe- d grin to an elegant portrait in a velvet dress, smile .down from the walls. A poster reads simply, "Friends of Jenny Lin, Always Remember," Brenda Wong, whose son knpw Jenny, said she was reluctant to go to the first volunteer meeting, at the Lin home. But there was an instant rapport, she said. "Everyone was hugging everybody. 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"They've got to have, some meaning. They cannot deaj yith their child dying in vain," saidtyan-c- y McBride, executive director. of the Adam Walsh Center, a victims' advocate group, in West Palm Beach, Fla. The concept of families declaring a personal war on crime is not npw. Adam Walsh's father, John, became a crusader for victims' rights after his son was abducted-ankilled in 1981. He now hosts the . 11SH model shown here. VV V FffilTCHTH LOW AS with engines. Vie four economy models include two vv . t fund-raisin- popular system that hooks up in five minutes. On the other ) from work and opened the door to a nightmare. In an upstairs bathroom lay the broken, bloodied body of his 1 daughter. Months later, he is tormented by a single question: Why? No one has been able to answer. Whoever murdered Jennifer Lin left few clues. So, Lin has decided to try for to find out why and who himself. "Jenny is too precious, too important for us to just try to hide away from her death, ' ' he says. " If! dori "t come out and do something, there's no way I can feel peace in myself, 7 So the family has organized the Friends of Jenny Lin. and set up a toll-fre- e hot line. They have held a g candlelight vigil and dance, decked trees and lapels with ribbons of royal blue Jenny's d - v ' Associated Press Writer CASTRO VALLEY, Calif! -On May 27, John Lin came home (Sit 200 - . 0 JT EFEELTT))! aw fie, i). .- . w. M.I l back and forth. . 5 ' for answers in slaying De- Children clambered over a locomotive that was stopped on its tracks when Korea was split. Vendors peddled cotton candy and dried squid in the bright sunshine. Families picnicked by the fence, the elders telling and retelling the story of their flight from North Korea. Many fear they will die before they see their relatives again. "At this time of year, I just can't stop crying. The older I get, the more I think about my home town, my brothers, my sisters," said Lee - Page Family Iooks: .. militarized Zone, held back by American military police. Overhead, an army helicopter clattered to Imjingak, the border outpost jiorth of Seoul, in front of an altar facing the fence. Old men and women took off r : their shoes and knelt gently on ar- thritic knees. They burned incense, passed glasses of wine over the fumes and placed them on the altar. An elderly woman burst into . tears, crying out "Mother! Fath--- er!" in a hoarse and desolate howl ' .until her friends coaxed her away from the altar. . V i s wish I could have taken my family with me, but my parents said my in family reunions, the uprooted . ' .make lonely pilgrimages to the Jwbed-wir- e border to commune ith the world they left behind in . the north. As usual, this year many came -- jrif ft. 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There was no activity planned that night on the field. Nelson concedes that could mean anything. Perhaps the witness was confused about the night he saw the stranger. He'd like to know for sure. |