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Over the years, the Japanese left has rioted to express its opposition to the presence of American bases in Japan under the U.S.-Japan mutual-security treaty. All to little effect. Now the protesters have a more peaceful-and potent-tactic. Since Aug. 5, when a group of Socialist demonstrators sat down in front of a convoy of tank transporters hauling five U.S. M48 tanks, the Army has been unable to move any armor into or out of its huge depot at Sagamihara, where military equipment is repaired for use in Viet Nam. Though some 200 tanks and armored personnel...
...poured on himself. On the day of Kalanta's burial, thousands of young mourners flooded the streets of Kaunas shouting "Freedom for Lithuania!" A young girl lay down in the street and spread her arms in the form of a cross. When the local police manhandled her, the rioting started. Hundreds counterattacked with fists, sticks and stones. When the police proved unable to quell the demonstrators, tough riot-control troops were called in. The angry young people reportedly killed a policeman, stoned a bookstore selling Communist literature and threw a fire bomb into the local Communist Party headquarters...
...scene was set for another enactment of the familiar ritual. Units of France's tough riot police were stationed along the elegant Avenue Kléber, which slopes away from the Arc de Triomphe. Outside what was once the Hotel Majestic, black sedans swung to a stop and disgorged the chief delegates, and their aides, of the four negotiating parties: the U.S., South Viet Nam, the National Liberation Front and North Viet...
...protest groups cut out of formal Convention activites began demonstrations Sunday night. A group of about 200 demonstrators from Flamingo Park marched outside the Playboy Plaza Hotel north of Democratic National Headquarters, then headed towards the headquarters before being turned away by a line of riot-equipped police...
...went on the theory that for better or worse, the people who would camp in the Park would be our people and we felt an obligation to them. We can't prevent a riot if, say. Humphrey is nominated. But we planned to do what we could for the people in the Park once they got here...