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...wise and well phrased were the utterances of the unlettered camel driver that some newsmen were skeptical. But State Department Interpreter Saeed Khan assured them that he was having a hard time matching his English translations with Bashir's Urdu eloquence. Many observers wondered if the camel driver had not been well coached for his journey; he tended to repeat his most popular lines in the different cities he visited. But what ever the explanation, there was no gainsaying that Bashir was a smash hit where-ever he went. And if a tentmaker could be a poet, many asked...
...still wear the padded-cotton clothing of China. Horsetail Banners. But there have been vast changes as well. Under the Communists, the population of Siberia has more than doubled to nearly 19 million. The free, windswept steppes that once knew the horsetail banners and the hoofbeat thunder of Genghis Khan and his ferocious Golden Horde are now filled with the clank of harvesters in wheatfields stretching to the horizon. Communist Young Pioneers on vacation play volleyball on river banks where Kirghiz nomads used to light their campfires. In the frozen north, villages that were cut off from the world...
...year romance between Karim Ago Khan, 24, spiritual leader of 20 million Ismaili Moslems, and Anouchka von Meks, 19, pert French-bred daughter of a German clothier, went briefly on the rocks. Bound for Sardinia in Karim's 15 ton cabin cruiser Taara, the pair suddenly found themselves lodged high and wet on a well-marked reef near Corsica's Gulf of Ajaccio. After the Taara was towed ashore, the Harvard-educated prince was informed by a local yachtsman that a French naval yard near by had facilities to repair the boat's mashed propellers, "but they...
...teen-agers with whom he had talked for hours in Nap's Lunch, cut off his widely spaced visits with Cornish neighbors. Occasionally he was seen at work in the nearby Dartmouth library, wearing, as a friend described it at the time, a checked wool shirt and "Genghis Khan beard." His working habits have not changed: Salinger takes a packed lunch to his cement-block cell, and works from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. He can be reached there by phone?but. says a relative, "the house had damn well better be burning down." When...
...idol is Pakistan's Sandhurst-trained soldier-boss, Field Marshal Mohammed Ayub Khan, who shares the same jaundiced view of democracy available too soon in a largely illiterate nation. For weeks, Pak and his fellow junta leaders, all soldiers, studied Ayub's techniques and pondered the advice of the new U.S. ambassador in Seoul, Samuel Berger. Berger's practical counsel: Hang on to power if you will, but give the people some timetable for a return of democracy. Pak has done just that. Last week he announced that the reins of government will indeed be handed back...