The World - News from Nov. 5, 1985
Police overpowered 14 South Korean students and freed three hostages, all Korean secretaries, after an anti-government, anti-U.S. occupation of the American Chamber of Commerce office in Seoul. The students shouted “Down with military dictatorship!” and “Withdraw American capitalists!” as police took them away.
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