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...Nobuo Aruga, 22. one of the major leaders in the rotating top leadership of Zengakuren, the student federation claiming to represent half of Japan's 677,000 undergraduates. A fourth-year law student at Tokyo University, he is soft-voiced, polite and smiling, comes of a middle-class family. His father was an army colonel in Manchuria, spent three years as a Soviet prisoner of war, and has no sympathy with Nobuo's ideas. His mother loyally supports her son, but Nobuo says patronizingly, "Being a woman, she knows nothing about...
...member of the "Mainstream" Trotskyite faction, Aruga is far out politically. Though currently allied with the Socialists and Communists, he expects eventually to fight them both. Why? Because they, just like the capitalists, are "enemies of peace, democracy and student freedom." What is needed, says Aruga, are "people's revolutions in all countries" to overthrow "corrupt" rulers. Once that has been done, people are so innately good, he says. that they will require only "minimum control by government." Except for the fact that nuclear war would "lead to humanity's end," Aruga would applaud a death struggle between...
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