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...government forces captured a rebel arms cache-75 bazookas, three recoilless guns, twelve machine guns-described as being of "American manufacture." By noon, transport planes had built up the government's force to 500 men. Rebel Major Nurdin, after a few token exchanges of fire, retreated westward in good order toward Padang...
Significantly, no North Korean planes intercepted Hobbs's hijacked DC-3 either. The plane obviously was expected, and after it landed at Sunan airport, 20 miles north of Pyongyang, North Korean officials made only token efforts to imply defection. With Hobbs were his copilot, U.S. Air Force Lieut. Colonel Howard McClellan (logging flying hours with Air Force permission), a West German businessman and his wife, and 30 Koreans, including the chief information officer of the Korean air force, an energetic, Communist-investigating member of the Korean National Assembly, and, police at Pusan theorized, some half-dozen North Korean agents...
...clamored for the cut in reserves (TIME, Jan. 20) as the logical follow-through to the discount-rate reductions. But last week they grumbled that the cut was not big enough. Said President George Champion of the Chase Manhattan Bank, second biggest in the U.S.: "This is only a token adjustment and not as much as will be needed. The time is ripe to loosen up much more on reserve requirements...
...long-standing basic position: I) eased credit, stepped-up defense spending and underlying economic strengths will get things perking up by midyear, and 2) drastic, too-much-too-soon recovery programs might fuel a new spiral of inflation. The decision: a reassuring statement by the President, plus a token public-works program...
Some specific freedoms won in October still hold. The lot of the peasants improved as the regime cut back compulsory deliveries and the number of collective farms dwindled to a token 1,724 (10,000 in Stalin's time). "The new fences," observed Warsaw's Swiat, "testify to the return of the peasants' sense of ownership." Relations with the Catholic Church are far better than in other Soviet-bloc countries, though the Vatican reports that "government interference with religious appointments tends to become more rigorous than last year...