The World - News from April 21, 1987

Thousands of students staged mostly peaceful demonstrations across South Korea to protest government and campus policies, police said. Officials at the national police headquarters said that 2,900 youths at four universities in Seoul and 5,600 students at 14 provincial universities were involved in the protests. “About 100 students at one university threw rocks at police, but there were no other violent actions,” a police spokesman said. Meanwhile, Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou Hwan, the country’s Roman Catholic prelate, stepped up his attack on the government, calling it “a despotic rule.”