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June 5, 1998 Friday MORNING EDITION

SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A03

LENGTH: 289 words

HEADLINE: PACIIC RIM AND ASIA

BODY:
   It's home: The Philippines presidential palace features a disco and
secret passages to escape rebel attacks.

South Korea will back end
of sanctions against North

President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea said today that Seoul would
support any move by Washington to ease or abandon U.S. sanctions
against North Korea but would not make such a request itself.

Despite the announcement, the president said South Korea's policies
toward the North had not changed.

Kim leaves for a nine-day state visit to the United States on
Saturday.  North Korea and South Korea's economic crisis are
expected to top his agenda.

ELSEWHERE IN THE REGION:

MORE TESTS?  Pakistan's military appears to be preparing to test
fire one of its short-range missiles, a move that could further
undermine efforts to avert an arms race in South Asia, a senior
Clinton administration official said Thursday.  The missile has a
range of 250 to 375 miles, and, if it is test launched, would be
armed with a dummy warhead or no warhead.

Nations appeal to India, Pakistan, News 29

DISSIDENTS MAKE REQUEST: Chinese dissidents asked Thursday that
some of them be allowed to accompany President Clinton on his visit
to Beijing's Tiananmen Square, where student demonstrators were
massacred nine years ago.  The exiles, members of a newly formed
coalition called the Free China Forum, said they wanted to lay a
wreath at the site.

Tiananmen vigil draws thousands, News 29

AID ARRIVES: Almost a week after an earthquake killed and injured
thousands of people in northern Afghanistan, international aid
agencies began delivering food Thursday to the tens of thousands of
people left homeless in the region.  NEWS 37

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

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