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Even the city's municipal politics seemed to be returning to their normal state of prewar confusion: Mayor Kim was being investigated by a government investigating committee; he in turn had ordered an investigation of the investigating committee. None of it mattered. Last week Mayor Kim relaxed for a moment on the leather couch in his office and glanced out of his windows at the signs of rebirth among the rubble of his city. "I think we're doing rather nicely," he said.