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Voice broadcasts in 24 languages are carried by 38 short-wave transmitters in the U.S. and 19 relay stations at Woofferton (England), Munich, Tangier, Salonika, Honolulu and Manila. Voice stations are located in some exotic places: the transmitter in Tangier stands on a sultan's former hunting domain, and the slender blue-and-white transmitters near Manila rise elegantly from damp rice paddies. In a twice-daily air assault against Russian jamming, the Voice teams up with some 30 BBC transmitters. Voice broadcasts are also carried by domestic stations in more than 50 countries, including the French government network...
...Communist-led Hukbalahaps launched their latest campaign of terror across the Philippine countryside (TIME, April 10), President Elpidio Quirino announced that government forces had once more driven the rebels back into the hills. At the same time, the government placed new restrictions on the release of military news and Manila's newspapers noted a sharp drop in reports of Huk activities...
...Communist-led guerrillas chose March 29, eighth anniversary of the birth of the Huk movement, * to begin their raids. Between midnight and dawn, bands of well-armed Huks sprang on four towns in the provinces surrounding Manila...
...extended one came the following night as attacks increased in number and violence. By the fourth day, the Huks had killed 44 Constabulary troopers and civilians, wounded some 33 more and terrorized towns all the way from Nueva Ecija Province in Central Luzon to Batangas Province south of Manila...
...Manila, flooded with evacuees from surrounding provinces, jittery citizens discussed a gunfight in the suburbs, rumors that the city itself might be attacked. "To think," cried an office girl, "that Tyrone Power is in Manila! What will he think of the Filipinos? Why doesn't the President do something...