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Show Alo TheSaltLake Tribune WORLD Sunday, December31, 1995 _ S. Korean Ex-President Had Slush Fund, Evidence Shows Arafat to Palestinians: Push for Shared Jerusalem THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES TIMES SEOUL, South Korea — Key evidence has been discovered indicating that former President Chun Doo Hwanacquired a huge slush fund while in office and Chun's lawyer, Lee Yang Woo, released a statement Saturday affirming that Chun had ended his fast on the advice of his family and doctors. Lee said the former president staged the hunger kept much of the moneyafter his strike to express his determina- 1980-1988 term ended, authorities said Saturday. The newly discovered funds were kept in an account at the Korea Investment Trust Co., prosecutors said. Investigators have tion to defend the legitimacy of his administration South Korea’s leaders, howeyer, pressed forward rapidiy with political as well as legal steps to underminethat quickly fadingle- previously said they were making gitimacy. Progressin gathering evidence of Recently appointed Prime Minister Lee Soo Sung paid a formal visit Saturday to a cemetery honoring victims of a May 1980 massacre of pro-democracy protesters in the southwestern city of a suspected Chun slush fund, but Saturday's announcement markedthefirst citation of a specific place where the money was kept. Chun, 64, a former general, is already in police custody on charges stemming from a 1979 mutiny. Saturday’s announcementfurther increases thelikelihoodthat he will also face indictmentsoon on corruption charges. South Korean media reported that Chunis likely to be accused of accumulating $390 million to $520 million whilein office Meanwhile, Chun formally end- ed a hunger strike he had launched upon his imprisonment Dec. 3. He had refused solid food and subsisted mainly on barley tea since his arrest, and was taken to a police hospital on Dec. 21 as his health worsened. In recent days he has accepted more nutritious drinks and on Fridayhe accepted intravenous nutrients and use of an oxygen mask Kwangju. RAMALLAH, West Bank — Onhisfirst visit to Ramallah since Israeli troops pulled outlast week, Yasser Arafat urged Palestinians on Saturday to boost their claim to a shared capital in Jerusalem, 10 miles down the road. “Today we make history — the Palestinian state with Jerusalem asits capital,” Arafat told the 10,000 cheering Palestinians who greeted the Palestinian Liberation Organization chief with banners, flags and dancing. Ramallah was the last town scheduled to be turned overto Palestinian control before Palestinian elections on Jan. 20. Amongthe against Israeli rule in the West Bank. The from the city’s main police station hailed Samiha Khalil, his only opponent for presi- Arafat and his companions as “the makers of the peace of the brave.” “This place was a place of humiliation for the Palestinians,” pharmacist Nabiha Sayyed said, referring to the police station “Today,it is a place of dignity for us.” Arafat encouraged Palestinian residents of Jerusalem to votein the elections for the council that will govern autonomous Palestinian areas. “Your vote will be a defense of the Arab dent of the Palestinian Authority. An 89- character of Jerusalem,” he said, drawing dignitaries with Arafat on the platform was seat autonomycouncilwill also be elected. Ramallah had been a centerofresistance That civilian uprising camein response to Chun’s imposition of nationwide martial law on May 17, 1980. The brutal crackdown that ended the revoit consolidated Chun’s hold on powerat thecost ofat least 240lives. during the 1987-1993 Palestinian uprising city of 30,000 bade farewell to the Israeli soldiers Wednesdaywith a final barrage of stones On Saturday, a 200-foot banner hanging morecheers. “At the end of the tunnel we see the minarets of Jerusalem, the walls of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO CITY — rare snowstorm Saturday in the forests of western Mexico was killing millions of monarch butterflies, a leading environmentalist said By midday, 7 inches of snow Some Kwangju residents believe about 1,000 people died in the clash. Lee's visit to the Kwangju martyrs’ cemetery wasthe first by a South Korean prime minister or president since the 1980 massa- covered the ground, and it was still falling in the five monarch cre. sanctuaries in the mountains of Michoacan state, the species’ principal wintering ground. 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