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...China's claim of jurisdiction over Indonesia's 3,000,000 Chinese. As Nehru proceeded on his way, paying a friendly call at Hanoi, he was surprised when Ho Chi Minh, president of the Red Viet Minh, did not bother to meet him at the airfield...
...Norwegian island 165 miles inside the Arctic Circle, engineers are blasting an airfield out of rock. In Balikesir, where two years ago Turks welcomed their first U.S.-made jets by sacrificing a sheep, Turkish pilots stand ready to "scramble" whenever the radar indicates enemy aircraft. Both outposts, and with them an immense array of armies, navies and air fleets, are joined together in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, history's greatest peacetime military alliance...
Nehru himself went to the New Delhi airfield one day last week to meet Premier Sastroamidjojo, treated him to a bigger welcoming crowd than Chou En-lai had rated, and weighed him down with garlands and praise. Proudly, Nehru expounded his "Five Principles" for Asian peace, terms he had insisted on incorporating in the Tibet treaty concluded with
Hospital Siege. Several hours after the affair at La Locha, 80 boiling-mad cadets raced through the capital's outskirts to the half-completed Roosevelt Hospital, where a battalion of Liberators lay encamped, and attacked. From the army base beside nearby Aurora airfield, regular officers quickly saw the chance they had been waiting for, rushed reinforcements to the cadets...
...Colonel EIfego Monzón, the army's spokesman in the junta, felt that the regulars had gone too far. Dashing from barracks to bar racks, Monzón next day won pledges of loyalty to the junta from all except officers commanding one military base near the airfield. Castillo Armas also had an even stronger ally. For the first time, public opinion spoke out, revealing unexpectedly heavy support for Castillo Armas. Outraged by the brutal treatment of the Liberation forces, huge crowds marched to the palace to shout: "Down with the army! Death to the treacherous cadets!" University...