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...confirm the well-known fact that the Viet Cong operate freely out of Cambodia. As usual, Sihanouk had some more words. Over the Pnompenh radio, he claimed that American advisers had been in on the attack-and that a Cambodian plane shot down a U.S.-made South Vietnamese spotter plane. And naturally he cabled the U.N. announcing that Cambodia would take its aggression charges to the Security Council...
This time, with Zanzibar choosing the government that will lead the protectorate to independence, the British took no chances. For the two-week voting and counting period, a full battalion of Scots Guards was flown in from Kenya. Spotter aircraft flew low over the clove plantations. Below, rural polling stations pegged white sheets to the ground as an all-well signal, kept red ones on hand in case of trouble. So great was popular enthusiasm for the election that on the nearby island of Pemba, known throughout Africa as the "Witchdoctors' University," leading practitioners were paid by both sides...
...Indian Ocean. Nobody knows the troubles it has seen. Ever since Africans went on a rampage there more than two years ago, murdering the government's handpicked tribal chiefs and setting fire to entire villages, mobile police patrols armed with Sten guns, armored cars, and helicopter spotter planes have had to stay on duty in parts of the Transkei. Fortnight ago, a white family of four were capriciously hacked to death with pangas as they stumbled down the steps of their burning trailer, set afire while parked on a road only 30 miles from the Transkei's capital...
...Warner League. Joe's cousin, Willard Hebbe, who plays slotback, weighs 135 Ibs. Freshman Lineman Danny Steger has seen action in three of the Panthers' five games this season; he weighs 90 Ibs. Says the Rev. Wilson Hill, pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church, who doubles as spotter at Panther games: "There's something in these Pflugerville boys that makes them want to make contact...
...Britain was braced for the expected shock. At Scotland Yard a special control center was set up to coordinate minute-by-minute reports from an armada of police cars. Squadrons of spotter planes stood fueled and ready for takeoff. Said Transport Minister Ernest Marples: "We kept going during the blitz, and we shall keep going...