Friday, November 15, 1974
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Page Three
U.
Japanese radicals
protest Ford visit
TOKYO () - Marxist radi- bent U.S. president, and thus
cals in red helmets attacked the ourselves."
U.S. and Soviet embassies on Massive anti-American de-
Thursday with fire bombs in the monstrations by leftists forced
first violent protest against officials to cancel the 1 a s t
President Ford's scheduled visit scheduled visit of an American'
to Japan next week. president, by Dwight D. Eisen-
There was little damage to hower in 1960. Japanese and
the missions. The government American officials say they ex-
said three or four Soviet diplo- pect no protests comparable to
mats and 11 policemen were in- those that kept Eisenhower
jured, the latter in scuffles with away, but some already have
attackers. Leaflets were drop- been held and more are plan-
ped at the Soviet VEmbassy op-
posing Ford's visit and alle g-
ing that Washington and Mos-
cow are trying to divide the
world between themselves.
PRIME MINISTER Kakuei
Tanaka's government expressed
regret and said it is mobilizing
160,000 Tokyo policemen, 60 per
cent more than normal, to pro-
tect the President next Monday
through Friday.
The security operation is Ja-1
pan's biggest since World WarI
II. Riot police were reported
coming to Tokyo from as f a r
ned.
SECURITY precautions a r e
expected to keep Ford far from
demonstrations, but Japanese
radicals recently have shifted
to small commando-type actions
like Thursday's attacks on the
two embassies.
As three radicals of the Marx-
ist Youth League used iron pip-
es in scuffling with police guard-
ing the American compound,
two of their comrades tossed
gasoline bombs into the com-
pound from a hotel roof 30 floors
up. Police said three helmeted
radicals came down a slope
behind the Soviet Embassy com-
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The Piate Life
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Director - BILLY WILDER
Is The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes the best American
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arch-decettive, Sherlock Holmes. The film opens with a
safe-deposit box being opened and a series of dusty objects
being extracted from it-a hypodermic, a violin concerto,
a deerstalker, a pipe, and a Rosebud-like glass ball con-
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over the contradictions in his elusive character.
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World War I will debunk the Nineteenth Century that is
dying at the film's end. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
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very modern one. It is a film for all audiences, particularly
that rather large audience that missed it the first time
around, and perhaps now, five years after the fact, film so-
cieties and revival houses will give it a well-deserved second
chance.
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to welcome Ford this time. Oth-
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five or six fire bombs and triedI
to dash inside.
Police said they arested all
eight of the Marxist attackers.
AP Photo
Workers at Tokyo's flag factory make U. S. fi gs L preparation for President Ford's visit
to Japan scheduled for next week. The Japanese Foreign Ministry reportedly ordered most
of the flags.
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Friday, November 15
Opportunity Program O p e n,
House: 1415 Mason, 9 am-3 pm. ,
WUOM: Live coverage, Senate'
Rules Com. hearings, confirmation
of N^'son Rockefeller as v-p. cont.,
10 am.
Regents' Meeting: Regents' Rm.,;
Admin. B1g., 11 am.
MERI: Shimon Gatt, Hebrew U.,'
Hadassah Med. Sch., Israel, "Physi-
cal Properties and Enzyme Utiliza-
tion of Mixed Micells of Sphingo-
myelin and Triton," 1057 MHRI, 11
am.
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"Sampling the 1880 Census of De-
troit," E. Conf. Rm., Rackham.
noon.
Hosp. Commission for Women
Meeting: W10410 Hosp., noon.
Educ. Media Ctr.: Energy: Dilem-
ma; 7nergy: New Sources, Schorl-
ing Aud., SEB, noon.
Guild House: Luncheon, Jack
Bailey, "The University Effort to
Meet the Challenge," 802 Monroe,1
noon.
Astronomy Colloquium: A. Del-j
semme, U. of Toledo, "Recent Ad-
vances in the Stuty of Comets,"j
P&A Colloq. Rm., 4 pm.
African Film Series: African Ani-
mals: History of Slavery in Ameri-
ca, Aud. D, Angell, 8 pm.
Music School: String dept., Re-
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UAC: Soph show, "Damn Yan-
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PTP: Showease series, "The Redj
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