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...convention, a Seoul police official arrived at Kim's house and told him to "stay at home." "This is totally illegal," protested Kim, who received a 20-year suspended sentence for a 1980 sedition conviction. Last February, in just the same fashion, Kim was put under house arrest for four weeks after his return from more than two years of self-imposed exile...
...back on Afrikanerdom in 1960, following the killing of 69 blacks by police in the Sharpeville massacre. He helped found the multiracial Christian Institute of South Africa, which declared apartheid immoral. In 1977 the government "banned" both the institute and Naudé, condemning him to seven years of virtual house arrest. Yet Naudé, 70, shows no signs of yielding. Since he assumed his SACC post last February, he has urged the government to negotiate with the A.N.C., to permit exiled black nationalists to return, and to release Nelson Mandela, a long-imprisoned leader of the A.N.C...
More than any other international issue since the Viet Nam War, the question of apartheid has touched off a wave of public protest and voluntary arrest in the U.S. that is far from being confined to Washington. While demonstrators have been taking to the streets of the capital, others across the country have sought to pressure state and local governments, universities and colleges to rid themselves of holdings that involve U.S. and foreign companies with interests in South Africa. Both houses of Congress have called for economic sanctions against Pretoria, and divestiture proposals have come before virtually every state legislature...
...Greenpeace protest ship Rainbow Warrior was sinking in Auckland Harbor after a midnight bombing on July 10, witnesses spotted a figure in a frogman's outfit wading ashore nearby and climbing into a camper. Last week a French-speaking couple traveling around New Zealand in a van were arrested on arson and murder charges in connection with the sabotage, which killed Crew Member Fernando Pereira. Although the couple, identified as Alain Turenge, 33, and Sophie Turenge, 36, claimed to be Swiss tourists, a government spokesman in Berne said that the Turenges "do not exist" in Swiss records. Police have issued...
...desperate search for something, anything, to arrest the disease, AIDS patients are traveling the world. Hudson had reportedly gone to Paris to seek treatment with an experimental antiviral preparation called HPA-23, which was discovered at the city's famed Pasteur Institute. French experiments with this and other new drugs have made Paris something of a Lourdes, attracting dozens of AIDS patients from the U.S. and elsewhere. Some patients have flown to Mexico to be treated with other drugs supposedly effective against AIDS but not approved for use in the U.S. Some sufferers have spent small fortunes on obscure rejuvenating...