sound truck opened up with wails and sobs exhorting the citizens of
Kwanju
to join the struggle and
support the dissidents. Soon came afrantic knocking on doors in the hotel, a student rebel informing the correspondents that "the army is coming, they're coming now."
darkness
as the shooting grew
heavier.
quiet-except when the wailing van passed.
room just next door.
was
The town was in total I moved the CBS camera gear into my room since his was in the line of fire. It st¿rted precisely at 2'.10 a.m. A few random shots, then a darkness. Williams and
r,
just cower under my tatam i for awhile," came a voice out of the
As dawn finally broke, someone made the brilliant suggestion that we could get some marvelous film from the window of AP correspondent Terry Anderson's
For the next hour, all
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hotel and we crouched on the floor below window level. "l think l'll
heavy burst of machine gun fire. The dissidents had antiquated M-1 rifles. Pop . . pop. Thump, as a concussion grenade went
off.
The Gilman brothers burst through the door dragging their equipment. My room was becoming popular.
The firing
seemed
getting much closer to the
to
be
Farkas
We started to move
when
three pale and shaky photographers appeared in the hall and announced they had been serenaded with a
burst of M16 fire which blew out their window and half a wall. We adjourned to the corridor so there were two walls between us and the street instead of one. HueY and Cobra gunships were unmistakably overhead and the rumble of tanks could be heard in the street outside. Suddenly, the shooting stop-
ped. The battle was over.
ventured into the street, but a tense and twitchy Korean army patrol waved us back.
Mr. Marvin Farkas, the F.C.C.'s diplomatic correspondent, approached the squad leader, poked him in the chest with his finger and began a lecture which was centered on the rights of the press. The soldier had his M16 pointed directly Marvin and we all waited in horror for Mr. Farkas to be blown
at
away.
But the soldier became distracted by one of his men and the squad moved off. By 7 a.m. we had managed to
film everything filmable and it
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know this great little place
. . . " said Mr. Farkas.
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