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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gaylord Perry and Ray Washburn 79)Jim Konstanty 80)Wilbur Wood 81)106 82)Darold Knowles 83)Joe Page 84)Bob Grim 85)Rollie Fingers 86)Moe Drabowsky 87)Rollie Fingers 88)Koufax 89)Pee Wee Reese 90)Mr. Laffs...
...September 1, 1977 A Dialogue With Eight Hundred Million People, an anthology of first-hand accounts of communist China written by Western reporters and scholars, was published in South Korea. Three months later, Mr. Lee Yong-hui, the translator and compiler of the anthology, was arrested by South Korean authorities. Lee was accused of failing to omit from his translation those passages "praising, encouraging and siding with 'foreign communist movements' as he would have been expected to do." Many of the accounts in the anthology had been published in South Korea without the objections of the government. Among the authors...
...Mr. Lee established five criteria in selecting works for the anthology. One criterion states that "the observers were all to be the highest authorities and most distinguished experts in their fields..." Another says, "those known to have 'pro-communist China' points of view were to be entirely omitted as were works from socialist circles...
...Mr. Lee, a university professor and correspondent for The Washington Post, was forced to give up both of his careers because of his political and intellectual beliefs. He was a journalist with Chosun Ibo, a leading Seoul daily, and has published a collection of essays entitled Idolatry and Reason as well as A Dialogue With Eight Hundred Million People. He now sits in prison in Seoul, waiting out a three-year sentence, magnanimously reduced to two years on appeal...
...publisher of the anthology, Mr. Paik Nakchung, was also arrested and sentenced to one year's imprisonment. Mr. Paik, who attended Brown University and received his Ph.D. from Harvard is also the publisher and founder of Creation and Criticism, the most prestigious intellectual journal in South Korea. The South Korean government has banned several issues of the quarterly, which is devoted to publishing works of leading Korean historians, philosophers, social scientists, and artists...