The World - News from April 2, 1989

Thousands of South Korean dockworkers and students armed with clubs, firebombs and rocks clashed with police to protest a crackdown that ended a strike at South Korea’s largest shipyard. About 3,500 workers and students battled police in the port city of Ulsan, about 150 miles southeast of Seoul, news reports said. In Seoul, meanwhile, about 1,000 students from Hanyang University protested the government decision last week to use 14,000 riot police to put down the three-month strike at the Hyundai shipyard. The National Council of Student Representatives, a major radical student group, said it will launch a nationwide wave of attacks on Hyundai in support of workers.