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Since January, 280 critics of the regime, most of them students, have been arrested under decrees making political dissent a crime-in some cases punishable by death. Park has tried to justify the harsh measure as a defense against a Communist takeover, but his critics claim that his real motive is to eliminate his domestic opponents...
Park's harsh repression is causing international reverberations. Among those already convicted are two Japanese citizens, Yoshiharu Hayakawa and Masaki Tachikawa, who have been living in South Korea. Hayakawa, 37, a language instructor, and Tachikawa, 28, a freelance journalist, were sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment for allegedly acting as go-betweens linking North Korean and Japanese Communists with the antigovernment student movement in Seoul...
...Mathews make up a highly-touted double bill at the slick Performance Center this week, Mathews playing Wednesday and Thursday only and Orleans Wednesday through Saturday. Orleans is a four-man band that used to back up Janis Joplin, and is smooth and well-rehearsed, fast but not harsh. Ian Matthews is a guitarist and singer from England who plays all sorts of stuff, mostly in the country-folk end of rock...
...simple--after all, Miller has done all the hard work, hasn't he? The simplicity is doubtless deceptive. But unfairly or not, one tends to feel less than charitable toward a production that does not at least render such a play intact. And while this may be harsh, it is not without sense. It hardly seems worth the effort of producing a play if one cannot give it on stage at least as much vitality as it has on paper...
...Prime Minister pointed out that Canada's inflation rate was still below the average of most of the industrialized world, now running at 15-16%. "Inflation is a problem, but let's not get obsessed by it," he told a rally at Edmonton. Arguing that a harsh control policy had already been discredited in Britain and the U.S. as a "proven disaster looking for a place to happen," Trudeau proposed instead tax benefits and consumer subsidies as protection against rising prices. Besides, he told audiences, the Canadian economy is still expected to advance by more than 5% this...