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...Burma, almost the entire air time of the Burma Broadcasting Service was devoted last week to news of the celebration, and the air force was alerted to drop leaflet notices all over the country. The government of Buddhist Premier U Nu planned to reduce all prison sentences by six months to two years, and to commute all death sentences to 20-year terms. Animals and birds awaiting slaughter will be released, and slaughterhouses, fish markets and butcher shops will be closed. More than 100,000 Burmese will make a pilgrimage to Rangoon, where 2,500 young men will be ordained...
...will get you, even in your bed." Thus the Greek Cypriot underground, in a mimeographed leaflet signed "The Leader Digenis," gave Britain's Field Marshal Sir John Harding its warning several weeks ago. Last week at a luncheon at Nicosia's Government House, an intelligence colonel told Sir John flatly that the underground was plotting his early assassination. Scoffed short, peppery Soldier Harding: "If they do attempt it, they will have to deal with my army, and that is no trifling matter...
Deadening Fear. Apparently Perón had several aims in staging his melodrama : to whip up his followers' flagging loyalty, excuse his scrapping of "pacification," scare the opposition meeting-holders and leaflet-passers. Most important, perhaps, he may have wanted to forestall any new military move to get rid of him by reminding the high brass-especially in the navy and air force-that he can still draw big, ugly crowds to the Plaza de Mayo...
...archbishop coadjutor with equal rights and functions plus the right of succession. Last week the 74-year-old prelate suffered another setback. The Vatican authorized publication of a message from its Papal Nuncio in Spain, Archbishop Ildebrando Antoniutti, congratulating the Chapter of the Seville Cathedral for condemning a recent leaflet campaign, "directed against the Pope, the Holy See, the Nuncio, and the Archbishop Coadjutor by means of writings widely distributed from Seville throughout Spain." The leaflets (one title: Segura, Martyr of Truth), attacked the Cardinal's "enemies" and were reportedly approved by Segura himself. Said the Nuncio...
...581st Air Resupply and Communications Wing, was aboard. The Chinese said that he confessed that the mission of his wing was "the introduction, supply, resupply, evacuation or recovery of underground personnel." The U.S. story is that Arnold's group was engaged in psychological warfare on a routine leaflet-dropping mission, that Colonel Arnold and his operations officer, Major William H. Baumer, went along for the ride. The Defense Department said the spying charge was "utterly false...