Word: zengakuren
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...wide, tree-lined boulevard leading to the Diet, some 6,000 fanatical students of the Zengakuren federation (who are so militant they consider Communists "sissified") surged against a barricade of police trucks drawn up before the Diet. In a wild melee of flying fists and thumping night sticks the police drove them back time and again. As darkness fell, the rioters were beaten at a cost of 18 seriously injured and 100 with minor bumps and bruises...