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Park's harsh repression was the latest move in a growing conflict between his government and the nation's students. The quarrel started with student complaints about compulsory military training, which soon escalated into demonstrations against high-level corruption in Park's government. Clamping down last week, the President ordered that any student who opposed military training be expelled from school and immediately conscripted...
...most sensational possibility to surface last week was that a high-level defector might have a role in the political turmoil. The Soviet news agency Tass picked up a Mongolian dispatch concerning the crash "for unknown reasons" of a Chinese air force jet in northeast Mongolia only 60 miles from the Soviet border. The crash took place on the night of Sept. 12-the day before the air force was so suddenly grounded. Nine charred bodies, several weapons and unspecified "documents" were found in the wreckage...
...generated waves from Moscow to Manhattan. As soon as Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev returned to the Soviet capital from his three-day visit to Yugoslavia, he took the extraordinary step of convening an emergency meeting of the 15-man Politburo right on the premises of Vnukovo Airport. The high-level conference, which forced a 24-hour delay of a state dinner in honor of India's visiting Premier Indira Gandhi, might have dealt with the still-mysterious goings-on in China. But it might also have dealt with the difficult problem of how the Kremlin should react...
...AIRLINES High-Level Mess While the world monetary system continues to rattle and shake, another citadel of international agreement is falling further into disarray. The airline cartel, embodied in the 108-member International Air Transport Association, has entered a fresh round of warfare over transatlantic air fares. Passengers stand to benefit from lower fares, but some lines may suffer disastrous losses...
Against this background of U.S.-Japanese conflict, Emperor Hirohito's trip assumes new significance. While in most respects it is simply high-level tourism, the journey symbolizes an attempt to reach out to the West and to find ties with nations other than...