The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, September 17, 1980-Page 7 South Korea's Kim .sentenced to death SEOUL, South Korea (AP)-A military court, ignoring pleas by the United States and Japan, this morning sentenced dissident leader Kim Dae-jung to death by hanging on charges of attempting to overthrow the government by force. Kim was accused of sedition by organizing and funding last May's anti-government demonstrations in Seoul, and the bloody rebellion that month in the southern city of Kwangju, near his birthplace. At least 260 or more people were killed in the nine-day uprising, when dissidents and radicals took over the city, raiding armories and police stations for arms and battling with army paratrooper units. KIM ORIGINALLY was indicted on six main charges-violating the national security act, plotting and in- citing rebellion, violating the. anti-communist act, violating martial law provisions, violating the decree against political activity, and violating the foreign exchange control act by receiving money from U.S. and Japanese sources. Thirteen of Kim's followers were accused of plotting seditionand violating martial law decrees. The prosecution had asked for sentences ranging from 20 years for Kim's close aide, the Rev. Moon Iik-hwan, down to three years for several others. The remaining 10 defendants were convicted on lesser charges of violating martial law decrees by holding illegal political meetings. THE SENTENCES now go automatically to a higher military court for review, then to the nation's supreme court. President Chun Doo-hwan also will have a chance to com- mute Kim's death sentence. Execution in South Korea is by hanging. In a summary of his defense last Saturday against the sedition charges, Kim proclaimed his innocence and pleaded that trials such as his "should happen in this land never again." "I have made every effort to achieve democracy, but I never tried to seize power by an insurrection," Kim told the court in his two-hour summation. The 54-year-old one-time presidential candidate said he had tried to spur democratic reforms in his homeland, but was not a communist who sought to bring down the govern- ment. Carter tries to win black votes in South .. . a w - -- From AP and UPI President Carter, reaching out to black voters in the South, charged yesterday that the "stirring" of race hatred can be seen in Ronald Reagan's campaign. "You've seen in this campaign the stirring of hate and the rebirth of code words like 'state rights' in a speech in Mississippi, and a campaign refrence to the Ku Klux Klan,' the president told 400 black leaders during an earlier speech in Atlanta. THE PRESIDENT'S references in Atlanta to his opponent were to a recent Reagan speech in Mississippi and the GOP candidate's speech on Labor Day in Detroit when he incorrectly identified Tuscumbia, Ala.-where Carter kicked off his campaign-as the birthplace of the Klan. _ The president blistered Reagan's record on social issues and warned blacks it is more important than ever to vote Nov. 4 because "the choice is so clear." Carter urged voters to study the Republican platform as they decide what to do. "It's not going to be possible in my judgment, although I hope I'm wrong, for me to face head-on in a public debate Governor Reagan, the Republican nominee," Carter said. "He's now been deprived by his staff of the opportunity to speak out on the issues." "HE DIDN'T DO very well on the Ku Klux Klan or China," said Carter, who asserted Monday that Reagan has been "muzzled" because of past campaign mistakes. "I don't believe the way to eliminate discrimination in this country is to turn its leadership over to someone who thought the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a bad bill," the president said in another jab at Reagan. Carter acknowledged to the black political and community leaders that he hasn't done everything they wanted in his first four years. "My presidency has not always satisfied everyone of you," he said. ". . . My phone has been open and you have used it." "But if my opponent is elected, you're going to have a hard time getting a phone call answered at the White House." . ... while in Texas, Reagan seeks support from Hispanic voters SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) - Ronald Reagan, sparring long-distance with President Carter, raced across Texas yesterday in hot pursuit of Hispanic votes and a big financial boost to his campaign for the state's 26 elec- toral votes. During a long day of campaigning, ,Reagan attended Mexican Independen- ce Day celebrations in San Antonio and Harlingen and scheduled an airport rally in Corpus Christi before going on to a giant fund-raising dinner in Houston. The Republican presidential can- didate appealed to Mexican-Ameicans to desert their usual allegiance to the Democrats. MEXICAN-AMERICAN voters in Texas now number more than 750,000 compared to less than 500,000 four years ago. In the 1976 election, Carter caputred 87 percent of the Mexican-American vote while carrying Texas against Gerald Ford. James Baker, a Houston lawyer who was Ford's campaign manager and now is a top Reagan aide, said the Republican canidate believes that a small increase over the 13 percent of the Hispanic vote that Ford took in 1976 could give Texas to Reagan in 1980. Negotiations continue in school strike; progress seen on non-economic issues By JULIE BROWN Formal negotiations between the Ann Arbor Education Association and the school board were scheduled to resume at 11 p.m. yesterday, as the city's 15- day old school strike continued. According to Robert Moseley, assistant superintendent of schools, informal discussion between both sides took place for about two hours Monday night, with three members of each negotiating team participating., According to teachers' association spokesman Dan Burroughs, the pur- pose of the Monday discussion was "to brainstorm for ideas that might get us out of the present impasse." Teachers voted 772-to-142 Monday morning to turn down the school board's latest contract offer. According to a statement released by the association, the offer was rejected because it "punishes"teachers by not allowing them to make up two paid days. dInformal agreement has been reached not to require school attendan- ce on the Friday after Thanksgiving, or during Christmas vacation, and to ex- tend the student year to June 19, 1981. The board has also proposed, however, that the teacher year be extended to June 20, an action the association op- poses because of the two-day pay loss. IllAnF 375 N. MAPLE 769-1300 THE GOLD RUSH is here tonight CHAPLIN makes starvation, avalanches and cannibalism funny in this tnder comedy in the Yukon. Only Chaplin could survive winter with only a tattered coat, a crooked hat and a cane. See baked potatoes dance and man-sized chickens fight off hunger crazed prospectors. 7:00 & 9:00. Thursday: BLOW UP i I I , , . COME AND SEE US AT THE OLD A&D ANY NIGHT CINEMA GUILD 1:15 7:30 5:15 3:15 9:30 r You Are Cordially Invited To A Presentation On "The World Conference of the UN Decade for Women" Held In Copenhagen, July, 1980 Policy Address By REGENT SARAH GODDARD POWER Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for WILLIE NELSON 1:15 jK Z,- 3:45 7:15 9:45 The second before she screams will be the most frightening moment of your life. E _ 1