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Students Give Up Hostage (N.Z.PA.-Reuter—Copyright) TOKYO, November 13. Striking Tokyo University students yesterday freed the dean of the university’s literature faculty after holding him prisoner for eight days. Professor Kentaro Hayashi, aged 55, was taken out on a stretcher carried by students, for immediate admission to hospital. They held Professor Hayashi hostage in an attempt to get him to nullify punishment meted out to a student who assaulted another professor. The student claimed he had only grabbed the professor’s necktie.
An earlier student announcement said Professor Hayashi would be released by Tuesday snee no progress had been made in negotiations with him. After a final round of bargaining on Monday night. Professor Hayashi complained of a severe headache and doctors acting for both students and university authorities were called in. Professor Hayashi’s detention was one of several incidents that has brought academic work at the 13,000member university to a standstill after 10 months of chaos.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31836, 14 November 1968, Page 4
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