The World : Korean Dissident Indicted

South Korean prosecutors have indicted the leader of South Korea’s main dissident coalition as part of a continuing crackdown against leftists. A prosecution spokesman in Seoul said that Lee Bu Yong, co-chairman of the Chonminyon alliance of 20 dissident groups, was charged with pro-communist acts. Lee was alleged to have tried to arrange illegal contacts with North Korea and to have organized protests in support of strikers at the Hyundai shipyard. In the past week, South Korean police have indicted two other senior officials of the dissident coalition and have seized at least 10,000 books they said contain praise for North Korean leaders.