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...Islam. Khomeini's revolution is not an Islamic revolution because murder, vengeance, and tampering with the bodies of the dead are alien to Islam." To show that he was serious about his promise of establishing a more democratic form of government, he announced the abolition of martial law, which has technically been in effect since the British imposed...
...launched a surprise raid against a Seoul university campus where student organizers had been meeting to plan new tactics; 18 suspected leaders were arrested. Simultaneously, 2,000 other police surrounded the school and detained other activists as they tried to run away. Then, within hours, the army's Martial Law Command proclaimed a broad crackdown that appeared to give the military all but official control over the country's political life. All schools were ordered closed until further notice. Political gatherings were banned. According to some reports, it was feared that even further sessions of the National Assembly...
...military authorities obviously had become alarmed, because the demonstrations were the most extensive in South Korea since the assassination of President Park Chung Hee seven months ago. The students were protesting the martial law that has been in effect ever since, and against the failure of the regime to deliver on its promises of a new constitution and a specific timetable for free popular elections. The demonstrations had followed three days of rioting among striking coal miners in the southern city of Sabuk. Now, the army's crackdown raised fresh doubts about South Korea's ability to make...
...Hwan, 48, the shadowy military Lieut. General Chun strongman behind the weak caretaker Cabinet of President Choi Kyu Hah, 60. Chun, a tough career soldier who once fought alongside U.S. forces in Viet Nam, assumed effective control behind the scenes following his couplike arrest last December of the former martial law commander, General Chung Seung Hwa. Chun has insisted, "I have no political ambitions," but he added to his personal power last month by appointing himself acting chief of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, a key post formerly held by Kim Jae Kyu, Park's convicted assassin...
...guaranteeing our national security, realizing our modernization and prosperity, and preventing any element from dividing our nation. I feel as though we are being forced to drift aimlessly, gripped by wrong ideas [such as permissiveness and lack of discipline] and totally disregarding the realities. On the question of when martial law should be lifted, I regret to say that such questions are beyond the realm of my duties...