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...from three years to life. Last week alone, Park's military courts sentenced 62 opponents of the regime to stiff prison terms for plotting to overthrow the government. Among them: former President Yun Po Sun, 76, Roman Catholic Bishop Daniel Tji Hak Soun, 53, and the Rev. Park Hyung Kyoo, 51, deeply respected pastor of Seoul's Cheil Presbyterian Church. All accepted the summary sentences with moving dignity. Said Yun: "I ask you one question. Is it a crime to help democracy...
Opposition leaders acknowledged that the election had brought them no power to resist Park. Said one of them, former Foreign Minister Yil Hyung Chyung: "All we can do is to speak out to remind people that there is an alternative...
...outcome of the referendum was never in doubt. "The only place they will give us to hold our rallies is a riverbed or a mountainside," complained New Democratic Assemblyman Yil-Hyung Chyung. "They have all the best places. People are even afraid to rent us loudspeaker equipment." Other opposition leaders charged that the Park forces were handing out money, shoes, food and other presents. The students remained docile not only because of the unspoken threat that their relatives might lose their jobs, but also because they found little support among the people...
Chief conspirator seemed to have been Hyung Kim, a 35-year-old tailor who before leaving closed his store and sent a mimeographed letter to all his customers saying he was not coming back. Police found an empty pistol holster in his home and an air navigation chart. With him went his pretty 21-year-old wife (or mistress). Three of the conspirators had fought for North Korea during the war, had been captured, "renounced Communism," then enlisted in the South Korean army. They had all been in touch, said the police, with one Kang, "a North Korean agent with...