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The World - News from Aug. 18, 1985

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The South Korean government postponed its controversial plan to enact a law this fall to curb campus dissidents by sending radical students to “reorientation camps” for six months of ideological instruction. President Chun Doo Hwan said the legislation would be delayed until “an appropriate time.” Opposition leaders and others charged that the proposed bill is unconstitutional and would heighten political tensions.

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