American officials had said they expected no dramatic concessions on a day in which the Chinese cremated Deng Xiaoping, and there were none.

LEAD: International A3-13 International A3-13 In Seoul, a dramatic concession to opposition demands was forumulated.

The first was to make Mr. Reagan appear to have won a dramatic concession from Mr. Gorbachev on going ahead with the "Star Wars" space-based defense system.

In a dramatic and unexpected concession to opposition demands, the chairman of the ruling party proposed today that South Korea's next president be elected through direct elections.

Ms. Albright's aides insisted that they had not expected to win dramatic concessions, but rather had hoped to pump new energy into efforts to create a single, unified state in Bosnia.

It is a story of a high-stakes gamble by union negotiators that paid off and of a dramatic 11th-hour concession by studio heads who were hobbled by conflicting goals.

Mr. Wang's release and arrival in the United States, which has already privately conveyed a willingness to provide him asylum, would be a dramatic 11th-hour concession by China.

Today, some called him a hero, the man who stunned the nation by offering dramatic concessions in a bid to resolve the crisis.

Senior members of the ruling party said today that they were preparing dramatic new concessions intended to draw the opposition into negotiations to defuse South Korea's political crisis.

I know that's a pretty dramatic concession for me to make.