Bugging protest
NZPA Seoul Tens of thousands of workers and students demonstrated in South Korea yesterday to denounce the reported American bugging of President Park Chung Hee’s official residence. An estimated 24,000 students at 11 high schools in the capita] staged rallies to protest the alleged electronic eavesdropping and tried to move into the streets but were held back by riot police, a police spokesman said. Some 400 protesters, members of the Federation of Korean Labour Unions
] wearing headbands emblazoned with the slogan “protection of sovereignty,” tried to storm the United States Embassy compound but were blocked by the police. | They carried signs reading, “Is it a moral diplomacy to bug the Presidential office?” and “We strongly demand the United States elucidate the truth of bugging.”
The demonstrators demanded that the Government call the former United States Ambassador, William Porter, to hear his testimony on the bugging.
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Press, 12 April 1978, Page 8
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