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...that from November 1944 to April 1945 the Japanese floated over North America some 9,000 small bombs in paper balloons made of tightly glued pieces of parchment-like paper. Only about 280 are known to have reached the U.S. and hit the ground - in Ore gon, Wyoming, Montana and as far in land as Iowa. The Japanese had hoped the bombs, launched into the Pacific jet streams, would ignite forest fires in the Pacific Northwest and panic...
...TIME's Martha de la Cal last week, Scares declared exultantly: "The people know that this country would be in the hands of the Communists or in a civil war if it were not for the Socialists. Who got rid of [the former proCommunist] Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves and who got rid of Saraiva de Carvalho? We did!" Scares declared that "the extremist left is finished" and dismissed Communist charges that Portugal might be subject to a new right-wing takeover by conservative leaders in the military. Said he: "We have the situation under control...
...Portuguese Democratic Movement, which is generally regarded as a front for the Communists (the M.D.P. denies it) to the Maoist Movement for the Reorganization of the Proletariat, a noisy, university-based party, hundreds of whose members were jailed during the Communist-influenced regime of ousted Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves. Hydraheaded, the extreme left is united in at least one goal: to overthrow the present moderate government...
...only bright prospect for the Pinheiro de Azevedo government is that it will soon start receiving financial and technical help from abroad. As long as the pro-Communist regime of Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves remained in power, the U.S. and Western European governments held back. Now, Western nations are prepared to discuss aid programs which, for a start, could total more than $200 million...
...With Gonçalves out of the way, Premier-designate Admiral José Batista Pinheiro de Azevedo−a leftist who seems acceptable to the military's moderate and radical factions−may now be able to assemble his Cabinet. He had been stalled because the Socialists and Popular Democrats, who together polled 64% of the vote in April's election, refused to participate in any government so long as Gonçalves retained any significant power. Although the Communists will suffer greatly from Gonçalves' demise, they have tried to limit the damage by distancing...