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...Chinese Communists used their advanced MIG-17 jets to strafe Nationalist Chinese craft trying to reinforce Quemoy. Said Nationalist Chief of General Staff "Tiger'' Wang Shu-ming, "I don't know how much longer we can practice restraint...
...Pakanbaru was wakened by the tumultuous honking and crying of thousands of disturbed jungle birds. Swarms of Sumatran fireflies, which travel in whirling galaxies resembling slowly moving fireballs, abruptly vanished. Then came the snarl of planes as a flight of old, U.S. -made F-51s swept in to strafe the shacks and hangars of Simpang Tiga airstrip, six miles southwest of town. After them came 16 lumbering transport planes; as they passed overhead, the sun-streaked sky blossomed with silken parachutes that brought 200 paratroopers to earth...
Simbolon is sure that if Djakarta defies their ultimatum, central government warplanes may soon be sent to bomb and strafe their headquarters. "We've penetrated the Djakarta government," says Simbolon calmly, "and we know that the Cabinet has decided to take military action against us at the end of February. By that time the government will have received four frigates from Italy and some arms from the Communist countries...
...Moroccans managed to hang on to some of Ifni's border outposts. Spanish paratroops dropped from the skies to retake one, a heavy cruiser lobbed shells into others. Madrid ordered World War II Heinkels and Messerschmitts south from the mainland to bomb and strafe along the ill-defined frontier. Istiqlal partisans charged that the Spanish were striking roads and villages on the Moroccan side. In Rabat young (28) Crown Prince Moulay Hassan ordered Moroccan troops to shoot back at any plane attacking Moroccan territory, and indicated that Morocco would demand "our door to the Sahara"-that part...
What had happened? "Miscalculation," said an editorial in the Times of London. "Mishandled from the start," snapped the Daily Mail. Far from being frightened off by the first sorties of fighter planes (with instructions to strafe only unoccupied forts, cars and donkey carts), the Imam's men had proved themselves much more adept at the use of automatic weapons than anyone had suspected...