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Through the festive streets of Rawalpindi clanked five Chinese-built T-59 tanks, dipping their long, angular gun barrels as they passed President Mohammed Ayub Khan's reviewing stand. Then the walls of the capital reverberated to the roar of a Pakistani Air Force flyby, led by four silvery MIG-19s. A flock of American-supplied aircraft trailed cautiously at the rear, mostly B57 bombers, F-86 Sabres and F-104 Starfighters. Ayub's armory had a new look, and he was flaunting it before his SEATO and CENTO allies...
...center that was set afire in anti-Washington riots last September. To both Pakistan and India, which are still smarting over suspension of U.S. aid programs as a result of their border war over Kashmir, Humphrey bore good, if modest, tidings. After conferring with Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, Humphrey announced a new $50 million loan. When he saw India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, he was able to promise a $100 million loan...
Spurring his warlike Moslems to battle against the hated Hindus in Kashmir last fall was a relatively simple task for Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan. Calming them down has turned out to be a good deal harder. After all, Ayub's controlled press had claimed one magnificent victory after another in Kashmir. When Ayub and India's late Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri agreed in Tashkent last month to observe the original border and withdraw their troops from it, Pakistan's vitriolic Foreign Minister Zulfikar AH Bhutto nearly resigned in disgust, and students demonstrated...
...ancient caravan routes. In 1500 B.C., the Aryans swept through to invade India. In the 4th century B.C., Alexander the Great's phalanx conquered the land. In turn, the Indians bearing Buddhism, the Persians, the White Huns, the Arabs preaching Islam, the Mongol hordes led by Genghis Khan all used Central Asia as steppingstones to empire...
...threat of renewed invasion by the Red Chinese, who have already seized 14,500 sq. mi. of Indian territory. To the east and west lies the dilemma that is Pakistan, and the question of how to proceed with the truce agreement that Shastri negotiated with President Ayub Khan at Tashkent. At home, India is plagued by famine, rising unemployment, and just about every other woe that an overpopulated, poverty-stricken land is heir...