JAPAN: No Time for Tea

In Tokyo one day early this month, a Japanese policeman noticed a woman hurrying furtively along the street, asked her what was in the bundle she was carrying. Instead of answering, the woman made for a truck, tossed the bundle in, and managed to shake off the cops. Police followed the truck to a garage, found it to be crammed with Communist records and literature. Japan's eight top Communist leaders had been in hiding ever since the government ordered their arrests more than a year ago. The new find gave police evidence enough to crack...

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