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...breakaway of Pakistan's eastern wing became a virtual certainty when the Islamabad government launched air strikes against at least eight Indian airfields two weeks ago. Responding in force, the Indian air force managed to wipe out the Pakistani air force in the East within two days, giving India control of the skies. In the Bay of Bengal and the Ganges delta region as well, the Indian navy was in unchallenged command. Its blockade of Chittagong and Chalna harbors cut off all reinforcements, supplies and chances of evacuation for the Pakistani forces, who found themselves far outnumbered...
...were the knights templar of the American highway in the early 1960s. Inspired by the sports car craze, Detroit automakers created a new breed of small, racy, relatively inexpensive "sports compact" cars for young and old alike. The first of the new group, the Ford Mustang, made a fast breakaway in 1964. It was rapidly followed by competing cars whose names evoked feelings of adventure and even danger: Plymouth's Barracuda, Chevrolet's Camaro, Pontiac's Firebird, American Motors' Javelin, Mercury's Cougar, and the Dodge Charger (later called the Challenger). Soon the sports compacts...
Facing that reality, Britain last week reached a compromise agreement with the breakaway white-supremacist government of Rhodesia. After six years of coaxing and outright pressure, including an economic embargo, London agreed to permit Rhodesia's return to colonial status just long enough to be granted official independence. It was the issue of independence, which Britain refused to grant until provision was made for some form of black majority rule, that led Premier Ian Smith to cut Rhodesia loose from its ties to Crown and Commonwealth six years ago with his unilateral declaration of independence...
...case to the people in the primaries. The speculations are fairly heady nonetheless. Some Democrats say that Kennedy would make a strong move for the nomination if he believed that it was about to go to Humphrey or Jackson, on the theory that either man would ensure a breakaway fourth-party movement on the left, thereby guaranteeing Nixon's reelection. Others maintain that Kennedy would have to try for the nomination if he saw New York's John Lindsay descending on the prize; better for Ted to head Lindsay off in 1972 than risk the New Yorker's becoming...
Another problem is that the area's crucial location as the land bridge between Europe and Asia inevitably makes it a scene of struggle among the superpowers. The Soviet Union, which has never given up trying to bring breakaway Yugoslavia back into the orthodox Communist fold, has an additional goal -a seaport on Yugoslavia's Dalmatian Coast for its big Mediterranean fleet. In a brilliant flanking tactic, China is showing an increasingly protective interest in Rumania and Yugoslavia; the object is to prevent the Soviets from moving freely against either country without having to fear Chinese retaliation against...