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The World - News from July 30, 1987

On the eve of the opening of long-awaited negotiations on changing President Chun Doo Hwan’s 1980 constitution, South Korea’s ruling party agreed to abolish the president’s sweeping emergency powers and to increase the role of Parliament. The Democratic Justice Party decided to accept an opposition demand to scrap a provision in the current national charter allowing the president to proclaim a state of emergency almost at will, a party spokesman said.

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