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...Lloyd flew on to Karachi, by way of New Delhi, Pakistan chose that moment to declare itself an Islamic republic and to emphasize its optional ties to the British Empire. "We accept the Queen not as our sovereign, but as the symbol of free association of the Commonwealth," declared Prime Minister Chaudri Mohammed...
...able to do much about any of these pressing problems. He will only have a week in Washington before taking off on another of his periodical trips more than halfway around the world. He will be gone until March 21-will attend a SEATO meeting at Karachi and then in the last 10 days make one-day stops in nine other countries from India to Japan...
Offices to implement this study's recommendations in Karachi, Lahore, and Dacca will be manned by two American economists. They will train a small group of Pakistani economists to administer the program spelled out in the report...
When Madame Sun Yatsen, a vice-chairman in Communist China's government and widow of republican China's founder, * paid a visit to Karachi last week, practically the whole government was at the airport to greet her. So was a Soviet-bloc delegation, just arrived from Warsaw to offer industrial goods for Pakistani jute and cotton that Western markets have been slow to take. A Pakistani official called hers "a warmer reception" than Nixon or Dulles got in Pakistan...
Rumblings in Islam. Peace was not to return that easily. At week's end the revanche went on. Across half the world, Islam reverberated with sympathy and alarm. Seventeen Arab and Asian nations asked the U.N. to intervene. In Karachi, 5,000 Moslems burst through police lines and burned an effigy of "French Colonialism." The U.S., with some 20,000 Americans stationed at the four SAC air bases in Morocco, maneuvered to keep from being involved. Anxious to support the cause of Arab freedom, yet loth to antagonize NATO Partner France, Washington only expressed concern and asked the French...