CANADA: Planned Panic

Radio station CHLP speaks in a modest (one kilowatt) voice, but entertains a devoted audience recruited mostly from Montreal's French-speaking east end. One night last week, listeners heard the announcer start off the 9 o'clock show with a recording by Chanteuse Yvette Giraud. Then with a brutal rasp the needle was knocked across the record and a harsh voice interrupted the program:

"This is Colonel Zoraguine of the Third Soviet Army Corps operating in the province of Quebec. The first elements of the Fourth Ukrainian Armored Division are in the heart of Montreal ... All resistance is useless. The Red...

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