South Korean President Park Chung-hee issued an emergency decree making it illegal "to deny, oppose, misrepresent, or defame" the president's decisions. The same decree prohibited reporting on dissent "through broadcasting, reporting or publishing, or by any other means."
He must have been concerned about "fake news".
Park started his adult life as an army officer in the Japanese puppet Manchukuo Imperial Army. After serving a little over two years in that entity during World War Two, he returned to the Korean Military Academy and joined the South Korean Army. He was a figure in the 1961 military coup in South Korea. After large scale protests in 1979 he was assassinated by Kim Jae-gyu, the director of the KCIA, and a close friend of his after a banquet at a safe house in Gungjeong-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul. Kim Jae-gyu would be hanged the following year for the action.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association approved allowing amateur athletes to play as professionals in a second sport.
