Seoul Students Battle Police as Universities Closed
Masked students clashed with police behind barricades in Seoul and across four cities as officials ordered 28 universities shut to curb campus protests against President Chun Doo hwan. Protesters urged new elections, while the U S consulate in Pusan closed as a precaution amid violence and sit-down strikes led by religious and political groups pushing for a direct election.
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South Korea
Chun Doo-hwan
Chun
Park Chung-hee
Chinju
Taegu
Taejon
Pusan
U.S
United States
Inchon
National Coalition For A Democratic Constitution
Shultz urges end to Korean protests in Asia trip
Secretary of State George P. Shultz urged South Korea’s government opponents to halt protests and said the United States is leaning on all parties to foster peaceful change. He spoke in Singapore ahead of talks with ASEAN ministers as violence between police and demonstrators persists against President Chun Doo-hwan who promises to step down next February.
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Singapore
George P. Shultz
South Korea
United States
Chun Doo-hwan
Americans and Soviets join walk for peace around Leningrad
A cross section of 230 Americans and 200 Soviets begin a two week 450 mile walk for peace around Leningrad and through villages to Moscow. Endorsed by 35 congressmen governors mayors entertainers and religious leaders the trip aims to foster citizen diplomacy. Participants from 31 states include academics accountants homemakers a radar designer and a sheep farmer.
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Leningrad
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Glaydin School
Virginia
School of International Service
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State Department
Allan Affeldt
International Peace Walk Inc
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Calif
Arth Lakin
Hughes Aircraft
Betty Joe Middleton
Washington Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association
Aeroflot
William Mandel
Berkeley
Mandel
27 towns near Chernobyl to stay empty official says
Soviet official Konstantin Fursov told Moscow reporters that 27 populated points in the 18 mile danger zone around the Chernobyl plant will not be resettled for the foreseeable future. He cited Pripyat and 26 others still contaminated beyond safe return.
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Pripyat
Fursov
Cheremoshnya
Nevitskoye
Soviet air defense chief is dismissed after Red Square incident
Moscow Army newspaper reports the dismissal of the air defenses chief amid laxity blamed for allowing 19 year old Mathias Rust to land a Cessna near the Kremlin. Col. Gen. V Tsarkov named to the post as several top officers lose party status. Reforms and discipline urged.
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Red Square
Defense Ministry
Red Star
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Mathias Rust
Finland
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Rust
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Communist Party
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Final arguments begin in trial of Klaus Barbie
Serge Klarsfeld named 44 Jewish children sent to Auschwitz as he closed his final argument in Klaus Barbie's trial in Lyon. He spoke of victims Sami Hans and Sarah who did not return, as mothers cried. Barbie and Gestapo arrested the children on April 6, 1944, at a home in Izieu, east of Lyon.
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France
Serge Klarsfeld
Auschwitz
Klaus Barbie
Gestapo
Sami
Hans
Sarah
Izieu
Soweto Shooting Anniversary Brings Deaths Clashes
Police say a black man was killed by security forces and nine injured on the Soweto shooting anniversary. Four whites beat a black man to death in Boksburg, while about 70 percent of black workers stayed home per anti apartheid groups. An advisory council urged rehabilitation centers for politically motivated youths and tighter censorship alongside increased military service.
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South Africa
Soweto
Boksburg
Anti
National Party
Honduras deport three Contras after plane crash
Honduras said it deported three Contra rebels Guillermo Gomez Alvaro Carazo and Juan Flores after their twin engine aircraft was hit by Sandinista fire over Nicaragua and crashed in southern Honduras, which cited neutrality in regional affairs.
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Honduras
Nicaragua
Guillermo Gomez
Juan Gomez
Alvaro Carazo
Juan Flores
Waldheim to Meet John Paul II in Vatican Visit
President Kurt Waldheim will visit the Vatican next week for his first foreign trip since taking office. He has faced isolation since 1986 accusations of aiding Nazi-era persecution while in the German army.
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Kurt Waldheim
United States
John Paul II
Vatican
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Waldheim
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