JAPANESE UNIONISTS PROTEST VISIT OF NUCLEAR-POWERED SUBMARINE
The U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Sculpin docked in Japan for the first time December 20 to provide Christmas shore leave for its 102-man crew. As it docked at Sasebo it was greeted by 200 Japanese union members. They demonstrated on the piers, shouting, "Go home, N-sub." A spokesman for the Socialist party announced that a larger demonstration was being planned at Shimase Park. It was expected that 15,000 unionists and students would turn out.
The visit by the Sculpin marks the thirteenth time U.S nuclear-powered submarines have tied up in Japanese ports. All of them have been met by angry demonstrators who maintain that the Japanese people have had sufficient experience with nuclear weapons and want no more to do with them.