demonstration, only a small minority of the Zengakuren took part. Key problem for antiwar fighters in Japan is to bring the huge mass organizations into action.
LARGER THAN PREVIOUS ONE
students and 8 onlookers as injured. Other sources gave much higher figures.
The total number of arrests Novenber 12 was 333, of whom 11 were released, the rest being held on suspicion of "interfering with and injuring law enforcing officers and preparing weapons." This was the largest number of students ever arrested in a single demonstration in Japan, according to the Asahi Evening News.
Two groups were held to have inspired the demonstration, the Sampa Rengo, which organized the October 8 rally, and the aru, another leftist tendency in the Zengakuren [All-Japan Student Federation].
The police reported that in about ten minutes, in clashing with students near the Otorii Station, they used 77 tear-gas grenades.
Students threw back some of the missiles and covered their faces with wet handkerchiefs, but finally had to retreat.
"DESERTERS" MEET WITH SYMPATHY IN JAPAN
The four U.S. navy men, John M. Barilla, Richard D. Bailey, Michael A. Lindner and Craig W, Anderson, who desert~ ed the aircraft carrier Intrepid while it was in Yokosuka, caused a considerable stir in Japan.
Their act of protest against the U.S. role in Vietnam met with wide popular sympathy.
But the Japanese police, in response to a demand from the U.S. auchorities, began searching for the four.
This touched off a controversy over the refusal of the Japanese governwent to grant political asylum to the four opponents of Johnson's course. The Asahi Bvening News pointed out in an editorial November 15 that “persons seeking asylum in Japan are all considered violators of the emigration and immigration control ordinance, either as illegal entrants or as illegal residents. They are tried in court and are, in principle, deported to their home country or forcefully expatriated to a third country."
"In other words," continued the editors, “at present our country has closed its doors tight to all exiles seeking political asylun."
The newspaper expected that "similar incidents will recur in the future," and advocated efforts "to establish legal standards quickly for the treatment of persons seeking asylum, with the current AWOL airmen case as a test case."
The four protesters, however, succeeded in evading the Japanese police and turned up in the Soviet Union. It is not known whether they will be granted political asylum there.