SOUTH KOREA SQUEEZE IN SEOUL IN SOUTH KOREA LAST WEEK, A FARMER 
NAMED SONG KYU IL TRAVELED ALL THE WAY FROM THE SOUTHERN 
PROVINCES TO PARADE BEFORE SEOUL'S DUK SOO PALACE WITH A PLACARD 
SCRAWLED IN HIS OWN BLOOD : GENERAL PARK, PLEASE DO SOMETHING 
TO SETTLE THE CRISIS . FARMER SONG WAS THROWN IN JAIL, 
ALONG WITH SOME 200 OTHER DEMONSTRATORS WHO OPENLY PROTESTED SOUTH KOREAN 
STRONGMAN GENERAL PARK CHUNG HEE'S BROKEN PROMISE TO CALL GENERAL ELECTIONS 
IN MAY AND HAND OVER POWER TO THE CIVILIANS . THE 
WHOLESALE ARRESTS ONLY SERVED TO ATTRACT MORE ATTENTION TO THE NOISY 
CAMPAIGN OF FORMER PRESIDENT YUN PO SUN, 65, AND NEW RULE 
PARTY LEADER HUH CHUNG, 67, WHO TOUCHED OFF THE UPROAR WITH 
A SERIES OF ANTIGOVERNMENT MEETINGS . JUNTA LEADERS WERE RELUCTANT TO 
ARREST YUN AND HUH FOR FEAR THEY WOULD BECOME POLITICAL MARTYRS 
. BUT THE MEN AROUND PARK DID NOT HESITATE TO REJECT 
THE OPPOSITION DEMANDS . DEFENSE MINISTER KIM SUNG UN SUMMONED 160 
TOP MILITARY MEN TO SEOUL FOR A STRATEGY MEETING, LATER TOOK 
TO A NATIONWIDE RADIO HOOKUP TO SPEAK FOR THEM : " 
WE STRONGLY SUPPORT THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT . THERE ARE SEEDS OF 
UNEASINESS IN THE COUNTRY, AND THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO 
TRANSFER THE GOVERNMENT TO CIVILIANS . " THEN, TO MAKE THE 
POINT MORE EMPHATICALLY, ALL 160 OFFICERS RODE GRANDLY THROUGH THE STREETS 
OF SEOUL IN A CONVOY OF MILITARY JEEPS . IT WAS 
GENERAL PARK HIMSELF WHO FELT THE SQUEEZE, FOR HE WAS LESS 
INTERESTED THAN THE REST OF HIS JUNTA IN RETAINING POWER IN 
THE HANDS OF THE ARMY . BUT HE COULD NOT BOW 
TO THE CLAMORING CIVILIANS, OR EVEN TO THE PRESSURE APPLIED FROM 
WASHINGTON BY U.S . AMBASSADOR SAMUEL BERGER LAST WEEK . FOR 
IF HE REVERSED HIMSELF YET ANOTHER TIME TO SUPPORT THE CIVILIANS, 
A MILITARY COUP MIGHT WELL TOPPLE HIM OVERNIGHT . 