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...political life on support of Japan's security pact with the U.S. It was no small gamble. Only last January, riot police had to use fire hoses to control more than 800 militantly antiwar students who tried to keep the USS Enterprise crew from taking shore leave in Sasebo. In April, Tokyo housewives marched in protest against the opening of a hospital for U.S. troops wounded in Viet Nam, and a month later a wave of fear swept the nation with reports that Sasebo's waters showed evidence of high radiation while the U.S. nuclear submarine Swordfish...
...installations and helped get the four Intrepid sailors to the Soviet Union. While the Pentagon does not feel that such activities are a major problem, the U.S. Navy has told the men of the U.S.S. Enterprise to be wary of Beheiren when the nuclear carrier docks in Sasebo this week...
SPENCER KELLOGG III Sasebo, Japan...
Ironically, Sato's first potential crisis was a threatened wave of leftist riots in protest against another U.S. visitor-the nuclear submarine Seadragon, which called last week at the Sasebo naval base on the southern island of Kyushu. But Japan has come a long way from 1960. There were some nasty-looking demonstrations in Tokyo and elsewhere, whipped up by the Socialists and Zengakuren, the far-left student organization. Cops banged heads as fluttering banners inveighed against Showa no kuro bune-the Black Ship of the Enlightened Peace Era. But the left-wingers were divided and the people generally...
...Eyebrows rose all across Japan six years ago when Yonejiro Mori resigned as managing director of giant Mitsubishi Shipbuilding to take command of Sasebo Heavy Industries Co., a smaller shipyard that seemed to be limping toward bankruptcy. But to Mori, who at 63 still retains the spirit he developed as a college oarsman, Sasebo represented an irresistible "sporting challenge." Firing up Sasebo's workers with daily pep talks, he diversified the company into diesel engines, bridges and steel tanks. He capitalized aggressively on the demand for supertankers created by the 1956 Suez crisis. Last July, Sasebo launched the world...