Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-09
Anti-U. S. Troubles
Mounting in Korea
els Ordered
Stoy on
Their Bases


SEOUL, Korea, June 9 (AP).
Anti American demonStra-
tons spread in South Korea to-
day. The United States Army
ordered American military per-
sonnet in the Seoul area re-
stricted to base except for Off
cial business.
A United States Army spokes-
man called the confinement
order a temporary measure to
reduce the possibility Of Incl
dents" in view of the wave OF
demonstrations demanding the
United States Government sign
a status-of-forces agreement
giving South Korea court juris-
diction over American service
men in some instances.
About 300 university students
defying stern new warnings
from South Korea's ruling mil
itary junta marched out Of
Taegu University today in the
third demonstration in a week
stemming from the alleged
beating of a Korean civilian
trespasser by two United States
Army officers last month.
A solid wall of police halted
the students about 100 yards
from the main gate of the
university in South Korea's
third largest city, about 200
miles southeast of Seoul.
Students Squat in Streets
Refusing to withdraw, the
students squatted in the street
and turned their protest into a
si-down strike. There were no
reports of violence.
The government announced
lac night that the United
States has agreed in principal
to resume negotiations toward
a status-of-forces pact. But it
said Washington had raised
issues which South Korea
finds difficult to accept"
1t did not elaborate on these
points but said the United
States has. been asked to re-
consider them.
Reports from Washington
quoted officials there as say
ing VERY active consideration"
is being given to an agreement.
These reports made clear, how
ever, that there is a division of
opinion in Washington, with
the Defense Department and
the United States Joint Chiefs
OF Staff IN opposition.
United States military men
are said to feel that an agree
ment should not be concluded
now because technical state
of war still exists in divided
Korea and that is why about
so, 900 American troops are sta
toned in this country.
The current pressure for a
pact reached the boiling point
after the May 90 beating of a
30-year-old Korean civilian in
a United States LIST Calvary Di-
vision area. Two American
first lieutenants have been
charged with unlawful deten-
ton, assault and battery and
giving false testimony in con-
nection with the case.
Korean newspapers and po-
lice have reported several other
incidents involving beatings
since that time and the cam
paign for a status forces
agreement has built up speedily.
Gen. Park Frees so
The South Korean govern
ment officially has deplored
the demonstrations and last
night warned of severe punish
ments for those who defy its
martial law ban on public
protests.
But South Korea's strong
man ruler, Gen. Chung Hee
Park, made no secret of his
sympathies with the students
demands and released so stu
dents arrested in anti-Amer-
lean demonstrations at two
universities in Seoul earlier
this week.
The student demonstrations
this week were the first since
the junta ousted Premier John
M. Chang's government last
year.
While the government and
press have expressed under
standing for the student action
this week, it is not believed that
the military rulers will condone
open defiance of their martial
law rule. They have governed
with a stern hand and they re-
that student demon
StrationS played a leading role
in topping the Syngman Rhee
regime in 1860.