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Communist Gains. Heavy fighting also broke out in Military Region III, which consists of the eleven provinces surrounding Saigon. The town of Cu Chi, the rear headquarters of the 25th ARVN Division, was shelled. Communist mortar and artillery attacks in Tay Ninh province, especially around Nui Ba Den (Black Virgin Mountain), drove thousands of terrified refugees into already crowded Tay Ninh City. In Phuoc Tuy province, the Communists are attempting to gain control of several rubber plantations near the town of Long Thanh. Not far from there, they have organized the 301st Regiment of the so-called People...
Death Revealed. Liu Shao-chi, 75, former Chinese chief of state, purged during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-69. A close associate of Mao's through a quarter-century of civil war, Liu was named Secretary-General of the Chinese Communist Party in 1943. Liu was considered to be Mao's heir apparent, but his identification with bureaucratic-technocratic policies made him the chief target of the zealous Red Guard levelers of the Cultural Revolution. Denounced as "a renegade, traitor, scab and agent of imperialism," Liu was stripped of party and governmental posts in 1968 and reportedly spent...
Most notable among those sentenced to death is Kim Chi Ha, 33, South Korea's best-known poet. Since the 1970 publication of his poem Five Bandits, a satirical portrait of official corruption, Kim has been one of Park's prime targets. He was arrested and brought to trial last April on charges that he had provided $5,400 to student antigovernment agitators. Actually, his prosecution probably stemmed as much from his barbed poetry as from his relatively innocuous actions against Park. A typical portion of his Five Bandits describes ministers and vice ministers: "They waddle from obesity...
...Catholic Bishop Daniel Tji Hak Soun, 53, a longtime critic of Park's regime, on charges of plotting against the government. Bishop Tji was arrested in St. Mary's Hospital in Seoul, where he was being treated for diabetes, and charged with giving $2,500 to Kim Chi Ha to aid in the overthrow of the government...
...second trial that began at week's end. This one involves 54 of the 253 people still under arrest since last April, when more than 2,000 university students attempted to stage a demonstration against the Park regime. Among the accused is 33-year-old Kim Chi Ha, South Korea's best-known poet, whose The Cry of the People-a 2,600-word broadside against repression, corruption and abuse of power-has deeply offended the government. Also on trial, on charges of plotting against the regime, are two Japanese citizens. Their imprisonment would further antagonize the Japanese...