The World - News from May 4, 1986

South Korean police fired tear gas to disperse about 10,000 anti-government demonstrators in the port city of Inchon, 20 miles west of Seoul, and arrested an estimated 100 people in the ensuing riot. Officials said 30 policemen were injured. An unspecified number of protesters were also injured. The melee began after a crowd of students and workers laid siege to an auditorium where the New Korea Democratic Party, the main opposition party, was to have held a rally to promote its petition campaign for constitutional reform. The protesters shouted slogans against the United States, the Korean government and the opposition party as well.