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To: NickSE who wrote (66145)	1/16/2003 12:20:55 PM
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Amid Crisis, South Korean Leader Assures U.S. Military washingtonpost.com SEOUL, Jan. 15-South Korea's president-elect, Roh Moon Hyun, today paid a hastily arranged visit to U.S. military headquarters here, seeking to blunt a wave of anti-American sentiment and shore up a troubled alliance amid an intensifying nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula. "The majority of the Korean population does not forget the fact that U.S. service members came to Korea to support us during the Korean war to ensure peace and freedom and sacrificed their blood in order to do so," said Roh, who takes office next month. "U.S. forces in Korea are necessary at present for peace and stability, and they will be welcome and needed in the future," he told a packed room of uniformed U.S. military brass and their South Korean counterparts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Military seizes heavy arms from Caracas police miami.com CARACAS - In the latest attempt to extend his control over the nation's institutions, President Hugo Chávez ordered the Venezuelan military to seize automatic weapons and riot gear from the rival Metropolitan Police on Tuesday, increasing the tension and potential for violence in the nation's 44-day political crisis. [..]''His idea is a complete takeover of institutions,'' said political analyst Luis Vicente León. ``He needs the police out. They are the only defense the opposition has left. They are not just left without arms -- they are defenseless.''

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