SOUTH KOREA THE HEAT'S OFF EVER SINCE HE LIFTED HIS BAN ON 
CIVILIAN POLITICAL ACTIVITY LAST JANUARY, THE HEAT HAS BEEN ON SOUTH 
KOREAN STRONGMAN GENERAL PARK CHUNG HEE . ANGER OVER THE STRONG-ARM 
TACTICS OF THE FEARED CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY FORCED PARK TO SACK 
HIS TOP HATCHET MAN (AND NEPHEW BY MARRIAGE), C.I.A . BOSS 
KIM CHONG PIL . INVESTIGATIONS REVEALED WHOLESALE CORRUPTION WITHIN SOUTH KOREA'S 
C.I.A., NND CHARGES WERE LEVELED THAT PARK HAD DONE NOTHING TO 
RELIEVE SOUTH KOREA'S ECONOMIC CHAOS . THREATENED WITH CIVIL WAR BY 
DISAFFECTED MEMBERS OF HIS OWN MILITARY JUNTA, PARK RELUCTANTLY BOWED OUT 
OF THE FORTHCOMING CIVILIAN PRESIDENTIAL RACE . LAST WEEK THE GENERAL 
DECIDED TO TURN OFF THE HEAT . RENEGING ON HIS PROMISE 
TO RESTORE CIVILIAN RULE, PARK SLAPPED A BAN ON ALL POLITICAL 
PARTIES, PROHIBITED " POLITICAL AGITATION " IN THE PRESS, JAILED 30 
PLOTTERS INCLUDING SOME FORMER JUNTA MEMBERS ACCUSED OF TRYING TO OVERTHROW 
HIS REGIME . IGNORING THE RESIGNATION OF HIS CABINET, PARK SUSPENDED 
NEXT MAY'S SCHEDULED ELECTIONS, ANNOUNCED THAT THE POPULACE INSTEAD WOULD VOTE 
IN A NEW REFERENDUM DESIGNED TO KEEP HIM IN ABSOLUTE POWER 
FOR ANOTHER FOUR YEARS . 