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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(1 May 1987) GS CAS SOUTH KOREA: More than 70 Roman Catholic monks joined the
06058716 struggle for social reform by joining an anti-government
1"VT+BVU hunger strike, in Seoul's Myonghong Cathedral. Students &
opposition leaders joined the hunger strikers. A protest of
over 200 hundred students at Seoul National University turned
violent as students threw rocks & firebombs at hundreds of
riot police, who in turn responded with tear gas. Main
opposition leaders, Kim Dae Jung & Kim Young-Sam, announced
the formation of a new opposition party the New Reunification
Democratic Party. Kim Dae Jung supporters who tried to hold a
protest prayer meeting outside his home, where he is being
held under house arrest, were removed by police.
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SOUTH KOREA SHOWS: Myonghong Cathedral in Seoul where the Seoul priests
Seoul are holding their hunger strike; sign outside the Cathedral
demanding constitutional change; priests fasting in Cathedral
annex; catholics praying in support; students & police
clashing at Seoul National Univ.; students throwing firebombs
& rocks; students running as police charge with tear gas;
police rounding up Kim supporters; Kim Dae Jung's house;
buses; Kim Young Sam enters rally; on stage; outside in
street; riot police; protestors on roof of dissident Kim Dae
Jung's house with banner; riot police rustle protestors into
buses. Date Shot: 28.4 - 1.5.87
Ex VID (Engl comm) WTN 3.52 mins
T/I 51.17
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