Marita petrol bombing fails
j NZPAM-Reuter Narita About eight red-helmeted! • Left-wing radicals in a truck! hurled 10 petrol bombs on iso a highway near one of the closed gates of Tokyo’s new international airport yesterday, the police said. The bombs flared without causing any damage as thel I truck sped away about 31 |a.m. (local time). , Two hours before mid-)
night on Sunday, about 300 anti-airport farmers and Left-wing radicals staged a torch demonstration near the airport, 60km east of Tokyo. The Anti-Airport League declared after the airport was officially opened on May 20 that it would launch a 100-day campaign from June 3 aimed at the ultimate closing of the airport.
The airport was closed for 20 minutes on Saturday! 'evening, for the first time (since last month’s opening,' when radicals put. up three tethered balloons at both i ends of the only runway. Shortly before the incident, the police reported cases of arson in the woods I near , the airport and jamlining in police commun[ications. There was no damage to [airport facilities. I A 3600-strong Association I against Aircraft Noises, (which has no links with the I Anti-Airport League, has decided to submit to the Government 15 demands, ini eluding a three-hour extension of the existing seven)hour overnight flight ban at the airport.
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