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South Cart Walker Ke< By MARK PLATTE Editor The day after USC professor Richard L. Walker was confirmed as U.S. ambassador to South Korea, he had slipped back into his office in Gambrell Hall for some final student matters before flying to Washington. After 28 days of meetings with virtually every leader in the nation's capital, Walker will be sworn in Friday as ambassador and will leave for South Korea July 26 to begin his tenure as President Reagan's choice for the position.. Walker spoke with the GamecocfeFriday during a rush to ut^aiuw ma pnurmes sur me inp. uat s pasi director ot international studies said he was pleased with the reaction 'Gemson professor Horace Fleming called me and said that Sen. Strom Thurmond was determined to put my name in for an ambassadorship and to please send a resume. I said I didn't have one. I told him I'm not seeking a new job. He said Sen. Thurmond says that's just what President Reagan wants: people who don't want jobs.' "?? ?inv and friendship of Sen. S.I. Hayakawa, R-Calif., and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Charles H. Percy, B-Iil., who made Walker feel at ease during his testimony. Although it's been close to four months since Reagan telephoned Walker to ask him of his interest in going to Korea, Walker still recalls the entire situation with a great deal of enthusiasm. The former Yale professor remembers that he wasn't interested in the job when rumors circulated that Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., had mentioned Walker's name as a possible candidate for the job. "CLEMSON PROFESSOR Horace Fleming called me and said that Sen. Thurmond was determined to put my name in for an ambassadorship and to please send a resume," Walker p juliri "I sfliH T didn't Hava nn?? I tnlH him I u/nsn't GMtlrinff a I new job. He said Sen. Thurmond says that's just what President Reagan wants: people who don't want jobs." 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"The Institute of Intemation Studies, which I really founded with the approval of the board of trustees 20 years ago, is a viable and growing entity . If I've created anything at all, it ought to be able to survive after leave. If it all depended on me, I wouldn't really have created anything, would I?" In South-Korea, Walker will not have to face the problems of his predecessor William Gleysteen, who had to deal with constant crisis during the Carter administration. GLEYSTEEN SPENT his years mediating during the time n iL. tr J Itinn ouuui lYureuu uppusiuun icdun rvim uac uuiig waa sciucuv.cu to be hung by President Chun Doo Hwan for sedition and attempts to overthrow the government. He also had to deal with the turmoil of the aftermath of President Park Chung ! Hee 's assas sination in 1979. i i The ever-present problems of human rights in Korea flared under Carter but still linger during the Reagan ad ministration. "There's been the implication that President Reagan doesn't really concern himself that much with the issue of human rights," Walker said. "That's not so at all." , Walker said his efforts would center on harvesting U.S.South Korean business relationships, cultural exchanges and economic development between the two countries. The USC professor said he supports keeping some 39,000 U.S. troops stationed along the demilitarized zone between North andSouth Korea until tensions are eased somewhat. | He will take a group known as the "South Carolina mafia"[ fa CmilK Ifnma SnnlnHinif Hie acciofant mSlitopv affaoho a I iV/ UVUUI UlVlUVUIIg litu aOUIUMItlb IllUlUtt J UVMAViaVy U M.A. graduate in the Institute; his deputy chief of mission and a former Walker student; and the man who is doing the day-to-day negotiations for the U.N. Council on the demilitarized zone, an M.A. graduate from USC. "IF YOU KEEP ME FROM ? 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