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President Ayub Khan had evidently seriously misjudged the mood of Pakistan. Three weeks ago, in an effort to calm the country's increasingly troubled political scene, the President ordered the arrest of left-leaning Opposition Leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. But the un rest continued, and last week, in one of Pakistan's most turbulent periods since independence in 1947, thousands of angry citizens, mostly students, surged through the streets virtually every day in protest against Ayub's rule...
...years, Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan has ruled his country with the firm hand of a field marshal, which he is. Under his version of "basic democracy," Ayub's rule is sustained by indirect elections through a sympathetic electoral college of 120,000 educated Pakistanis. He, in turn, provides Pakistan with political stability and a steadily improving economy. But last week Pakistan's facade of political calm cracked. A would-be assassin took two wild potshots at Ayub. Student riots broke out in half a dozen cities...
...empire overrun by the invading Mongols, China's last Sung emperor was cast into the sea. Kublai Khan became lord of an empire that stretched from Korea to Mesopotamia. In the next 90 years under the Yuan dynasty, which he founded, China experienced what seems to have been a wideranging artistic reorientation. Yet until recently, Chinese scholars could never bring themselves to study in depth this hated era of foreign domination...
...Nacional Republicana were on hand at the Quinta do Vinagre: inside, 200 blue-liveried servants passed around flutes of champagne and a midnight snack of lobster salad. All night, the local Portuguese crowded to get a closer look at Gina Lollobrigida in a plunging pink ballgown, the Begum Aga Khan's colossal diamond necklace and Sukarno's ex-wife Ratna Sari Dewi in a tight red gown. Someone remembered that it was Henry Ford II's 51st birthday, and everyone sang "Happy Birthday, dear Henry," while he blew out the candles. It was 7 a.m. before Princess...
...empire? Will to power? Greed? Not in De Riencourt's book. Historically, the true empire builder, he thinks, is motivated by "an idealistic longing," a faith in universal law, a passion for a "common culture." He is more in the spirit of a missionary than of Genghis Khan. De Riencourt quotes Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana speaking half a century ago: "God has made us the master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns. He has marked the American people as his chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world...