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...until after 1 a.m.-while the stu dents were dancing around the flames and singing the Internationale in one of the indelible mob scenes of the cold war-did the cops get the order that no Japanese government has given its police since 1952 : use tear gas. Eagerly, Tokyo's much-misused police complied, then sallied forth and chased the half-blinded Zengakuren diehards away from the Diet area. By dawn, the city's hospitals had treated 600 police and 270 students, and for the first time since the anti-treaty demonstrations began five weeks ago, Zengakuren...
...Cadillac swerved to the right and stopped; the two Fords halted bumper to bumper behind it. Instantly the squatting students hurled themselves forward. They beat on the car with fists and poles, hammered its body and kicked the locked doors. Glass cracked in the windshield. The mob began rocking the car in rhythmic time to a chant of "Go hoh-mu, Ha-gachee!" or "Yan-kee. go hum!" Thousands of other students who had been snake-dancing and marching near by rushed to join in. A Socialist member of Parliament, wearing a red sash, looked on approvingly from the sidelines...
Dear Students. For a start, a student mob stormed Kishi's Tokyo residence, where 500 police waited nervously under a green flag reading "Dear Students, Please Do Not Enter." The mob pulled down an iron gate, temporarily captured five riot trucks and launched a lusty exchange of stickwork that left 83 policemen and 20 students injured. Next targets were the railway stations, where the students joined the big Red-tainted labor union Sohyo in setting up a general strike for the following morning. The method: strangling commuter traffic by kidnaping motormen...
...through the predawn hours, the mob squatted on the tracks, stopped 650 trains, and hustled the motormen away in taxis, consoling each captive with a 1,000-yen note ($2.80), which a Sohyo organizer peeled from a thick wad of bills in his hand. With traffic effectively halted, mobs snake-danced through the streets, paraded past the Diet and the U.S. embassy, shouting "Down with Kishi" and "Eisenhower don't come." Ranging from Communists to Kabuki actors,* the mob included one group whose banner bore a likeness of Christ; true to the left-wing bias common among students...
Squelch of the week, delivered by Michigan's Cross Co. (automation machinery) after the United Auto Workers charged that a "strikebreaker mob" inflicted a "vicious beating" on U.A.W. Member Michael Oravec during the union's current drive to organize Cross workers...