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Students and police clash at May Day rally!
SEOUL, South Korea -- Students
and workers fought riot police with
firebombs and rocks in downtown
Seoul Sunday after troopers blocked
a rally called by labor and dissident
groups to mark May Day. More than
1,300 people were arrested.
The clashes were the first major
protests on Seoul’s streets since late
last year, and they sent terrified pe
destrians running for cover.
In scattered clashes, bands of pro
testers battled the 20,000 riot police
deployed to block the rally, called on
the eve of the international labor
holiday.
Police officials, who spoke on
condition of anonymity, reported
dozens of injuries.
In Inchon, west of Seoul, and in
southeastern Kwangju, protesters
also fought police.
Police fired warning shots into the
air in Sungnam on Seoul’s southern
outskirts when about 2(X) workers
and students tried to firebomb a po
lice station, police said. Five officers
were injured.
Radical students, dissidents and
workers arc mounting violent pro
tests to demand the overthrow of the
government. They also want higher
wages, better working conditions and
a share in South Korea’s growing
economic prosperity. Most South
Korean workers earn subsistence
wages for long working weeks.
President Roh Tac-woo’s govern
ment has warned it may lake emer
gency steps to hall strikes, which
have cost more than $3 billion in lost
production this year. Government
leaders arc worried that labor unrest
could cripple the economy and fo
ment political unrest.
Police had no overall figures on
the number of protesters in Seoul, but
it appeared below 1(),0(X). Rally or
ganizers had claimed that 100,000
people would take part, but police
blocked off outlying towns near Se
oul and prevented workers from Icav
ing for the capital.
Riot police guarded bus and train
stations in Seoul to turn back people
arriving for the rally. They also
blocked off the meeting site.
The worst fighting raged for about
four hours around Yonsci University,
when about 2,000 students and work
ers tried to march past 5,(XX) riot
police surrounding the campus.
Protesters, many armed with clubs
and iron pipes, marched to the beat ol
drums and gongs.
Police in armored vans opened I ire
with multiple tear gas launchers be
fore the marchers reached the main
gale. Students charged out of the
campus and pelted police with h.m
dreds of firebombs and rocks. Un'
The police vans fired volley after
volley at the charging protesters and
police repeatedly charged to drive the
attackers back. Thick white cloudsof *
choking gas cloaked the campus. I
In the crowded main shopping
district, hundreds of protesters
briefly clashed with police blocking
the rally site. They lore up paving
stones to use as amunition as passers
by fled.
Police seized dozens of protesters
in the downtown clashes, healing and
kicking many as they were taken
away.
Navy plans to reduce weapon stockpile
WASHINGTON - The Navy
has decided to retire three short
range nuclear weapons that ac
count for 5 percent of the total
stockpile of U.S. warheads, Navy
officials said Sunday.
By 1991, the Navy will retire
the AS ROC nuclear depth charge,
the SUBROC missile and the Ter
rier missile, a total of 1,100 war
heads, according to Navy officers
and documents released under the
Freedom of Information Act.
The weapons originally were
intended to provide a nuclear de
terrent against attacks on surface
ships by Soviet warships and sub
marines. But Navy strategists now
believe they can protect U.S. ships
from other ships by other means
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The decision to unilaterally
discard the weapons was contained
in documents obtained by an inde
pendent analyst, William Arkin. It
was first reported in Sunday edi
tions of The New York Times ahd
confirmed Sunday by Navy offi
cers who spoke on condition they
not be further identified.
It was not clear why the Bush
administration chose to take such a
major step without public an
nouncement and apparently has
not sought to include the weapons
in negotiations with the Soviet
Union.
The decision was prompted by
the realization that the United
States has more aircraft carriers
and large surface vessels than the
Soviet Union, and that such ships
are vulnerable to nuclear attack,
said Navy officers.
“There is a rccognilion that if
there is a nuclear war at sea, we
have got more to lose than the
Russians,” the Times quoted Vice
Admiral Henry C. Muslin, who
retired last year after serving as
deputy chief of Naval Operations.
“The concept of a nuclear war
at sea is a concept whose time has
passed,” Muslin said in the pub
lished report.
Arkin said another reason for the
decision appears to be a shift in
emphasis by the Navy from short
range weapons to nuclear-tipped
Tomahawk cruise missiles. The
Tomahawk can fly below enemy
radar and strike targets, such as
bomber airfields on the Soviet
mainland, at ranges up to 1,300
miles.
The Soviet Union has been in
sisting that the United States agree
to limit or ban submarine-launched
Tomahawk cruise missiles, but
under the Reagan administration
the Navy balked. The issue is being
considered as part of a strategic
review being conducted by the
Bush Administration, to be com
pleted by May 10.
The decision to retire the short
range nuclear weapons will not af
fect strategic ballistic missiles sta
tioned aboard Navy nuclear subma
rines that form a key part of the U.S.
nuclear triad, land, air and sea
based weapons intended to deter a
large-scale attack, said Navy offi
cers.
The weapons that are being re
tired constitute part of the Ameri
can nuclear arsenal that has re
ceived little public attention in the
media or on Capitol Hill, compared
to the extensive discussions that
have occurred on the cruise and
ballistic systems.
The ASROC nuclear depth
charge, carried aboard U.S. de
stroyers, cruisers and frigates in
volved in anti-submarine warfare,
has a range of up to 6.2 miles.
The SUBROC missile is carried |
by attack submarines, and is de
signed to fly at supersonic speeds,
then drop a nuclear charge against
enemy submarines.
The Terrier anti-aircraft missile,
which entered service in l%2, is
fired from surface warships and has
a range of up to 21.7 miles, accord
ing to Janes Fighting Ships, an inde
pendently published military hand
book.
It was not clear whether or how
much money the Defense Depart
ment will save by retiring the
short-range weapons.
Soviet police nab members
of underground groups
MOSCOW - Police grabbed leaders of
underground political groups who defied a
government warning Sunday and gathered to
sell copies of their illegal magazines on a
crowded pedestrian mall.
Leaders of the Democratic Union, Express
Chronicle, Free Migration, Debate, and Trust
groups were hauled away and detained after
ignoring police calls to disperse.
"Down with the fascists!" one man yelled at
police as they grabbed the activists.
In their publications and in telephone calls to
Western reporters, the groups declared Sunday a
"samizdat holiday." "Samizdat" is Russian
for self-published and is used to describe under
ground newspapers and magazines.
Exhibiters perched atop concrete planters
outside the Vakhtangov theater on busy Arbal
Street, silently holding makeshift bulletin
boards bearing copies of their publications.
Thousands ol onlookers strolled along the
pedestrian street in the 70 degree weather and
peeked at the publications. T he most sensational
ol the newspapers was a copy of the Communist
Several other Central Committee speakers I
condemned the Democratic Union, w hich bills ■
itself as an alternative political party. They
called for a crackdown on it and other informal S
groups.
The Democratic Union, formed in May, said 8
it seeks multiparty elections, independent trade
unions, a new constitution and the w ithdrawal o! S
Soviet troops from Eastern Europe.S
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cuiy uu.iy riuvua inai naci pasted to it cartoons
lampooning Soviet founder Vladimir I. Lenin.
One cartoon portrayed Lenin as a devil.
A policeman announced through a mega
phone that the gathering was not sanctioned, and
he ordered cxlnbiiers to disperse. About 15
minutes later, officers moved in.
Asked why the exhibit was broken up a
senior police officer pointed to a Soviet llag
Hying nearby and indicated the gathering was
holiday W'lh lh° sp'ril °* lhc May Day
The exhibitors regularly sell their propa
bypoliaf^^'y ant* usual,y arc no1 bothered
The Communist Party’s policy-making Cen
tta Committee criticized the so-called informal
| was'!molerable.and SMd TuCsda>'lhal *•""**“
I °f.ldeolo8,cal subversion, to infect our people
f am ~rt 01 ,deoloKicaI AIDS.’^said
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