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Finally, after three tense days, the barricades came down. Some 70 South Korean students who had shut themselves in the second-floor library of the U.S. Information Service building in downtown Seoul decided to call it quits, partly because of exhaustion and partly because of the quiet mediation of U.S. embassy officials. But as the students left, just after noon Sunday, each wore a white headband with the inscription DOWN WITH MILITARY DICTATORSHIP...
...South African embassies, as more and more South African officials are prevented from leaving buildings, as more and more college administrators begin to fear that their buildings will be occupied by student activists, there is one inevitable confrontation on this issue that I already dread: the 1988 Olympics in Seoul...
...carrier, has long sought to add the booming Far East to its flight plan. "We're ecstatic," said United Chairman Richard Ferris. "For years we've been an applicant in all Pacific route cases, with only one recent success." That was a new service linking Seattle to Seoul, Tokyo and Hong Kong, which United began in 1983 after a five-year wait for foreign agreement. The takeover of the Pan Am routes, while subject to review abroad, should encounter no such delays...
STUDENT HUNGER STRIKES, class boycotts, and violent demonstrations where 38 were wounded followed the March resignation of KOREA UNIVERSITY President Kim Jun-yop, which student and faculty leaders claim was forced by the South Korean government. Thousands of students attended demonstrations at the university's Seoul campus, while 12 student government leaders staged three-to- five-day hunger strikes and up to 25 percent of the student body boycotted military training classes for nine days last month. Student leaders said the government ousted Kim because he attempted to keep the university free from government pressure and because Kim was overly...
Three times in the past 30 months, Chinese defectors have successfully used South Korea as a way station for political asylum in Taiwan. With that in mind, Peking requested last Saturday that the Koreans return the ship and its entire crew. Seoul seemed certain to comply. The mutinous duo, however, are receiving medical treatment in a South Korean hospital. Once they are fit again, they will probably be allowed to go to Taiwan...