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...Revelations. So far the scandal has been focused on cash gifts to U.S. politicians who might have clout in decisions involving aid to the Park Chung Hee regime in South Korea. New revelations continue to reinforce the impression that, as one congressional leader admitted, "there's a lot of Korean money around, and a lot of guys are involved." Among the main figures in the federal probes of Korean influence peddling: former Representative Richard Hanna of California, a silent partner in an import-export business run by Tongsun Park, a Washington-based Korean businessman with a yen for winning...
...Korea, has been using the same tactics in the U.S. Some 25 South Korean secret-police agents, backed by a network of enforcers, have infiltrated the large South Korean communities in Los Angeles and other cities in search of critics of the regime of South Korean President Park Chung Hee. Exiled journalists have been threatened with assassination and with reprisals against relatives in South Korea. Other dissidents have been beaten. This illegal bullying by the KCIA is proving hard to halt because the presence of foreign intelligence services is often sanctioned...
Investigators believe Tongsun Park used commissions that he received as the intermediary between the Korean government and U.S. suppliers of federally subsidized rice to buy influence on Capitol Hill for South Korean Dictator Park Chung Hee...
...vision of America. They show him mingling with voters, caressing corn stalks near his farm, and extemporizing upon his stands on specific issues. Rafshoon is repeating a strategy he successfully employed during the battle for the nomination: planting 30-sec. spots on TV shows such as Lawrence Welk and Hee-Haw, favored by down-home Americans. Both TV and print ads hammer home the campaign's theme: "A Leader, for a Change...
...Seoul's Roman Catholic Myongdong Cathedral, marking the 57th anniversary of a Korean uprising against Japanese colonial rule. A group of political and religious opposition leaders decided to use the occasion to issue a "Declaration for the Restoration of Democracy," protesting the iron rule of Park Chung Hee and calling on him to step down...