Seoul and Tokyo have worked out a deal at the expense of South Korean exiles in Japan. After weeks of anti-Japanese demonstrations in South Korea and speculation that President Park Chung Hee might break diplomatic relations with Japan, Japanese special envoy Etsusaburo Shiina flew to Seoul September 19. He brought expressions of regret over the August 15 attempted assassination of Park by a Korean resident of Japan. Park’s wife was killed in the shooting.
Intercontinental Press 1974-75
Following Resistance’s first contact with the US SWP in August 1969, it was impressed by that party’s achievements and was keen to learn more from it. In December 1969, John attended the Minneapolis Convention of Young Socialist Alliance, the SWP’s youth group, on behalf of Resistance. For 18 months from mid-1974, John was sent on an “apprentice” stint on the SWP’s Intercontinental Press based in New York. This section comprises John’s writings under the pseudonym Peter Green from that period.
Intercontinental Press – October 21, 1974
Intercontinental Press – October 7, 1974
Protesting the corruption of the Thieu regime, several thousand Catholics marched through the northern city of Hue on Sunday, September 8. It was the first Catholic antigovernment demonstration to be held in the former imperial capital. Police attacked the demonstrators with tear gas and clubs, confiscating anticorruption banners and dispersing the march. Hundreds of demonstrators later regrouped in a Catholic church, where a document denouncing Thieu was read.
Intercontinental Press – September 23, 1974
In the last few months South Vietnam has undergone the heaviest fighting since the “cease-fire” agreement went into effect in January 1973.
In the Iron Triangle area north of Saigon, clashes have occurred since May 17, when three militia outposts near Bencat were captured by the liberation forces. Two have still not been retaken. Skirmishes have taken place only sixteen miles from the center of Saigon, and Bienhoa airfield, the largest military airfield in South Vietnam, was said to have been threatened at one point.
Intercontinental Press – September 9, 1974
The South Korean dictator Park Chung Hee has exploited to the full the attempt on his life August 15 in which his wife was killed.
He has tried to blame the assassination attempt on the North Koreans, claiming that they masterminded the plot. He has pointed to the Japanese government, blaming it for allowing pro-North Korean political activity and for unwittingly issuing a passport to the assassin, who was identified by the Korean police as Mun Se Kwang, a Korean living in Osaka.
Intercontinental Press – August 5, 1974
The big-character wall posters that were such a feature of the 1966-69 Cultural Revolution have proliferated anew on the streets of China’s cities in recent months. Although neither so extensive nor so frenzied as the campaign during the Cultural Revolution, the current poster campaign once again has all the earmarks of having been instigated by the dominant Maoist wing of the bureaucracy.