Housewife hostage
Armed Left-Wing extremists holding a housewife hostage were today still defying hundreds of police in the Japanese mountain resort of Karuizawa. Five radicals from a Trotskyite student faction took over a villa here last Saturday, with the 31-year-old wife of the villa’s caretaker as a hostage. Almost 1000 police, including expert marksmen, are surrounding the villa, perched on a snow-covered mountainside. But apart from loudspeaker appeals, they have made no effort to dislodge the extremists.—Koruizawa, February 21.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32847, 22 February 1972, Page 3
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