The protesters mounting an all-night vigil outside Camp Schwab, an American military base on the main island of the southern prefecture of Okinawa, are hardly wild-eyed radicals. Former civil servants, schoolteachers and professors are among those attempting to block trucks bringing supplies for the construction of a vast new facility in and near the camp, to be used by American marines. Riot police have been trying to disperse them. Some of those attempting to reach the base by canoe have been stopped by coast-guard vessels and re-launched in rough waters.
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