S. Korean Students Attack U.S. Center
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SEOUL — South Korean police fired blanks and tear gas Tuesday to disperse 1,000 anti-American protesters who threw gasoline bombs and rocks at the newly reopened U.S. Cultural Center in Kwangju.
The old center, a single-story wooden building, was closed after it was attacked 29 times between 1980 and 1989. The new center on the third story of a high-security building was opened Monday by U.S. Ambassador Donald Gregg. Radical students in Kwangju see the center as a symbol of American interference and American cultural imperialism.
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