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...Soviets hold four of five world marks. Impressive, but somewhat deceptive. The records were all set at high altitude, in Alma-Ata, near the Chinese border. That might mean that American Peter Mueller, Holland's Hans van Helden or two Norwegians, Jan Egil Storholt and Sten Stensen, can upset the Soviets...
Main Danger. Trouble also broke out in another colonial quarter-the tiny island of Timor (pop. 650,000), situated in the midst of the Indonesian archipelago. Last week one of the island's fledgling independence parties, using ancient Mausers, Sten guns and Timorese cutlasses, staged a bizarre coup, seizing the police headquarters and the radio station and demanding independence from Portugal...
Bandit Attack. Though the Kunsts were often greeted royally (by Princess Grace of Monaco, among others), they also had misadventures. Mistaken for smugglers in the Spanish countryside one night, they were prodded awake by guards with Sten guns. The mayor of a French village chased them out of his house when they came to call, and they were stoned by anti-Americans in Iran and Turkey...
...youth with shaggy hair, hollow cheeks and a euphoric look lay slumped and panting on a rickety old couch. A poster on the wall proclaimed END BRITISH TERROR and showed a Union Jack dripping blood on a skull and crossbones. A small table was piled with ammo clips, a Sten gun and World War II carbines. Young men, few of them above high school age, kept passing through the room during the next hour. They received their instructions, hid pistols under their belts at the small of their backs, and disappeared again through a backyard littered with hijacked cars...
...bloodiest was at Jamalpur north of Dacca, where the Pakistani battalion commander was sent a surrender offer by one of the three Indian battalions surrounding him. The Pakistani colonel replied with a note ("I suggest you come with a Sten gun instead of a pen over which you have such mastery") and enclosed a 7.62-mm. bullet. Apparently thinking the Indians were bluffing and that he was confronted by only a company or so, the Pakistani colonel attacked that night, with five waves of about 100 men each charging head-on at a dug-in Indian battalion. The Indians claimed...