The World - News from Dec. 17, 1986

South Korea’s opposition and its ruling party agreed to pull back from their political confrontation and resume parliamentary committee talks on constitutional reform. The agreement came at a meeting between leaders of the dissidents’ New Korea Democratic Party and the ruling Democratic Justice Party. The opposition wants direct presidential elections next year to choose a successor to Chun Doo Hwan, who is due to step down in 1988 at the end of a mandate granted by an electoral college in 1981.