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...wave of anti-Communist slaughter that followed the party's abortive coup in 1965. Since the pogrom, Indonesia's leadership has warned time and again that the Com munists were plotting a comeback. So often was the message repeated that most Indonesians came to pay it scant attention. This month the government produced evidence that even the most hard-nosed skeptics could not ignore: the army announced that it had broken up an incipient guerrilla movement in East Java led by surviving Central Com mittee members of the outlawed Partai Komunis Indonesia, or P.K.I...
Conservative Trio. Pennsylvania Governor Raymond Shafer had dropped his favorite-son role in order to back Rockefeller. But neither Shafer's influence nor his choice to nominate Rockefeller could hold the entire delegation in line. Some of the Pennsylvanians had scant respect for their Governor, privately referring to him as "Dudley Do-Right," after the feckless cartoon character who usually ends up doing the wrong thing for the right reason. And Nixon had powerful supporters in the delegation, including George Bloom, chairman of the state public-utility commission, and Congressman James Fulton. When Rockefeller visited the Keystone Staters, District Attorney...
When Israeli jets whooshed low over the Jordanian town of Salt one midmorning last week, the townspeople paid scant heed. Though Salt is only 13 miles from King Hussein's palace in Amman, the incursion was not unusual. Jordan's air force was destroyed in last year's Six-Day War, and Israel has had the virtual freedom of Jordanian skies ever since. This time, however, the Israeli overflight was far from routine. Angered by daily raids on Israeli-occupied territory by Jordan-based Arab commandos, Israel had decided to make use of its air superiority...
Thin-Slcinned SSTs. Happily, the debris has caused scant damage so far. Like meteors, space junk usually burns up in the atmosphere. Even the few pieces that manage to survive have landed harmlessly enough. No planes have been hit, although pilots have sighted 26 descending satellites...
...Anderson shook off the sleep, cut back on staff, ordered a $100 million modernization program. Then, on a fishing trip with Chairman Charles S. Jones of Richfield Oil Corp., he worked out a merger that linked Atlantic with the Los Angeles company. The agreement between the two was a scant five pages long to cover a $1.2 billion organization with worldwide holdings...