PHOTOS on pages 980 and 981. To the left: Part of cordon of some 5,000 riot police set up near Otorii Station on the Airport Line of the Keihin Express Railway Co. in Tokyo. They sought to block students protesting November 12 against trip by Prime Minister Eisaku Sato to Washington where he was scheduled to give President Johnson a political assist in escalation of the war in Vietnan.
TOKYO STUDENT DEMONSTRATION
The final figures on the size of the student demonstration in Tokyo Noven~ ber 12* protesting Sato's trip to the U.S. indicated that protesters numbered 5,700 [Asahi Evening News November 13] and the police 7,000, which included 1,000 plainclothesmen.
This compares with some 2,400 students and 600 unionists in the October 8 demonstration and 2,300 riot police [see World Outlook November 3, p. 888]. (The police later said they had mobilized 4,800 men.)
Casualties in the October 8 action were 250, according to the Tokyo fire department, including 151 police. One student was killed, probably accidentally.
In the November 12 demonstration, the same source listed 121 policemen, 51
*And not November 11 as reported in last week's World Outlook.
FOUR
To the right: Advance group of students in Tokyo equipped with wooden staves. Police ordered them to disperse, then hurled tear gas at them. Students used staves in self-defense and threw stones as cops advanced. Despite size of