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...Hercules transports, complete with U.S. crews and maintenance teams, took off for New Delhi to fly Indian troops and equipment to the battle zone. Britain weighed in with Bren and Sten guns, and airlifted 150 tons of arms to India. Canada prepared to ship six transport planes. Australia opened Indian credits for $1,800,000 worth of munitions...
...alliance and that India would pay for the weapons some time in the future. Both the U.S. and Britain played along. After loading at arms depots in West Germany and Turkey, U.S. transport planes headed for India with automatic weapons, heavy mortars and mountain howitzers. British transports brought in Bren and Sten guns. France promised arms and helicopters. In New Delhi, U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Galbraith hailed the airlift of arms, but warned, "I hope no one will imagine they will work magic,'' because "the great task remains with the Indian army...
...Collier has gone from losses to profits ($4,000,000 last year), and currently Erpf and his investing partners are adding new companies to Collier's at a two-a-year clip. Last week, for well under $1,000,000, Crowell-Collier bought New York's famed Bren-tano bookstore chain, which, like all conventional booksellers, has been hard hit by department-store and discount-house competition...
...Osagyefo legend, but exploit it to further their own ambition. Ghana's masses are openly skeptical of the Nkrumah cult. Hit in the pocketbook by prohibitive compulsory savings taxes and threatened with jail at every turn, they are in a rebellious frame of mind. Barricaded behind Bren guns in the presidential residence, Nkrumah is becoming increasingly aware of the people's mood and is fearful that they might find a strong leader to rally around. Hence his continued repression to prevent the people from short-circuiting Ahuna Bo Birim-for that may be the one unmanageable event that...
...Natal that the lightning struck next. Out from the tough slums of Cato Manor, the big African location near the lovely port city of Durban, surged three phalanxes of angry blacks waving ax handles and carrying stones. Two groups were turned back by armored cars bristling with fast-firing Bren guns. But the third column headed for Central Prison shouting, "Give us our leaders!" before the police could stop it. It moved swiftly up handsome West Street, busiest of the shopping boulevards. Suddenly the police were firing, and within minutes three Africans were dead and 22 wounded lay writhing...