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...army's roundup of weapons should make the life of an Acapulco cop somewhat easier. The arms collection has already yielded more than 3,000 assorted rifles, pistols and machine guns. There is obviously a long way to go. In the middle of the roundup, two campesinos smashed their way into the home of Acapulco's assistant police chief and began shooting up the place. During a bloody exchange of fire, one campesino was killed on the spot, and the other was lucky-or unfortunate-enough to end up a prisoner in the Acapulco jail...
However ambitious, the program by no means represents Irvine's last roundup. Confining development to 40,000 acres along the coast, the company will keep its rich central plains under cultivation, preserve its inland mountain acreage as a wilderness recreation area. And while some companies have been allowed to buy plant sites outright (at prices as high as $32,000 an acre), the bulk of the developed property wilt be leased rather than sold-which guarantees Irvine a handsome income, plus the chance to sell out later at still higher prices...
...terrorists operating in the country's 15 Northeastern provinces, Premier Thanom Kittikachorn's government has sent 15,000 troops and civilian volunteers into the area. But last week it was the Thai security police who struck at the very power center of the insurgency. In a predawn roundup, they arrested 33 of the country's top Communist leaders, including twelve Central Committee members of the outlawed Communist Party of Thailand...
...other prisoner who made news was Andreas Papandreou, leftist son of former Premier George Papandreou. The real target of the initial roundup, he is charged with conspiracy to commit treason. A pair of self-proclaimed "secret witnesses" in the Andreas case have now surfaced in the U.S., courtesy of Ramparts magazine, which, after the usual spate of advance publicity, published their story that agents of the KIP (the Greek CIA) coerced them into giving false testimony against Andreas. The two men, part-time Publisher Kyriakos Diakogiannis and Lawyer Andreas Vachliotis, had offered the story to other U.S. newsmen in Athens...
...after 3½ years of comparatively peaceful occupation of Denmark, Hitler suddenly decided to apply me final solution to the approximately 8,500 Danish Jews. To start the roundup, the Gestapo chose a date when most Jews would be at the synagogues-the Jewish New Year, or Rosh Hashana, which fell on Sept. 30. Early that evening, Dr. Werner Best, the ranking Nazi in Denmark, was so confident of the outcome that he happily wired Hitler, "Denmark is free of Jews...