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...lease" to the Soviets at the time of the 1944 armistice. There, behind a secrecy no Finn was allowed to penetrate, the Russians destroyed the homes of nearly 8,000 Finns and installed coast guns, jets and some 20,000 troops. Later they allowed trains to cross the peninsula, so long as steel shutters were drawn over windows. Heavy explosions in the area shook windows in Helsinki several times a week until recently. One night last week explosions were heard briefly again as the Russians prepared to leave. Heavily laden barges put out from the base, carrying equipment and supplies...
Seven years ago, Egypt, a power in the Moslem world, had come sweeping across the Sinai Peninsula to throttle the infant Israel at its U.N. birth. But decades of corruption in palace and government paid off disastrously in lack of ammunition, inferior arms and cowardly officering. Captain Nasser's unit was surrounded at Faluja, a few miles from Gaza. He saw his commanding officer wringing his hands and crying: "The soldiers are dying! The soldiers are dying...
...choice of target areas than those based in either Japan or in the Philippines . . . They can reach all important target areas within an arc which includes all of Southeast Asia, the whole of China, the Lake Baikal industrial area, eastern Siberia, and the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula." In other words, Okinawa is the spearhead of U.S. retaliatory power in the Far East...
Aoki made his headquarters in a cave by the ocean, secretly began rounding up his fellow sufferers and taking them back to his peninsula. There, unnoticed by the islanders, they built crude shelters and lived on food that Aoki bought with his slim funds. His recruits at first spurned his religion, since by Okinawan tradition leprosy was considered an evidence of evil, on the part of either the sufferer or his ancestors. Aoki countered by reciting Christ's absolution of the blind man: "Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should...
Undaunted. Aoki slipped back to Okinawa, used intermediaries to buy up a wooded island called Yagaji, just off the peninsula shore. Two wealthy Japanese Christians donated money to build a central hall and two dormitories. A new colony, called Airaku-en (Garden of the Haven of Love) was started, and Aoki became its manager. The following year the Japanese government decided to use Aoki's site for its leprosarium, built a hospital and several other buildings. The colony's population jumped from 42 to 242, and some blamed Aoki for the government's brutally efficient gathering process...