AT the height of last week's turmoil in Japan, TIME Tokyo Bureau Chief Alexander Campbell was prowling through the city's huge Hibiya Park in search of a scheduled Zenga-kuren meeting. Suddenly he found himself surrounded by students in red horns and white robes. As it turned out, the weird assemblage was a Tokyo University Greek tragedy club earnestly rehearsing for an upcoming performance of Prometheus; the Zengakuren students, plotting a more contemporary tragedy, were in the next clearing. To separate the myth from the reality in last week's chain of events was the task of Campbell and other TIME staffers throughout the world. With President Eisenhower on his final scheduled trip in office was his TIME shadow, White House Correspondent Charles Mohr. When the party arrived in Manila, Mohr was joined by Hong Kong Bureau Chief Stanley Karnow, and both went on to Ike's next stop, Formosa. Through the week their cables to the editors in New York were supplemented by reports of reaction to the Far East drama from Paris, London, Bonn, New Delhi and virtually every other capital in the world.

N the eye of the hurricane, of course, were Alex Campbell and Tokyo Staffer Frank Iwama. Campbell, a Scotsman, who in ten years with TIME has served in South Africa and India --and written books about both--cabled a veritable volume of 32,500 words of valuable background material on Ambassador MacArthur and postwar Japan for this week's cover story, constantly wired the running story as the demonstrations crescendoed. Campbell found that his green tin hat, with "TIME-LIFE" in white letters on front, proved to be a passport. In their polite Japanese way, police and demonstrators alike stopped to clear a path for him as he crossed back and forth through the embattled lines. From a rooftop vantage point in Premier Kishi's compound, which was conveniently across the street from the Diet, Campbell had a bird's-eye view of the major fighting--when not ducking flying rocks and spurting fire hoses. Working near by in a sector where empty soda bottles were the demonstrators' weapons, Correspondent Iwama, a Canadian-Japanese, dodged the sailing glassware but absorbed an eye-smarting dose of tear gas when the police retaliated.

Out of the front-line work of Campbell and Iwama, the behind-the-lines reporting of other correspondents around the world and the analysis of the editors in New York, came a clear view of a complicated week. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Visible Hand, On With the Trip and The No. I Objective; FOREIGN NEWS, The Expendable Premier and The Men Behind the Mobs; and PRESS, Free Press Gone Wrong.

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