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Victory, in fact, belonged to no one in last week's ceasefire. Kashmir remained divided. India still claimed 690 sq. mi. of Pakistani territory (see map), but had failed by a scant three miles to capture the strategic Sialkot plateau. Pakistan held 250 sq. mi. of Indian Kashmir and Rajasthan, but had lost -temporarily at least - half its armor. And Red China had lost that most val uable of Asian commodities: face...
Trip to Moscow. Pakistan's relations with Red China had been cool and correct. But after Ayub Khan's recriminations against Washington, things grew warmer. Negotiations were begun to define the 200-mile border with Tibet; Peking proved generous, handing over to Pakistan about 750 sq. mi. of disputed territory. As the Pakistanis turned willing, the Chinese turned eager. Trade expanded; an agreement was reached for Pakistan International Airlines to make biweekly flights between Karachi and Canton; China advanced a $60 million credit to Pakistan...
...could drive near the Colosseum during the gladiator-baiting. Europe's early roads charged stiff tolls to pay for improvements, such as sufficient widening "to let a man pass with a dead corpse on a cart." The Romans, using heavy stones in layers, built a 50,000-mi. network of roads that wound through much of Europe and North Africa...
...Angeles riot erupted: "Whitey will have to help us now." Last week Whitey was doing just that. In Washington, President Johnson dispatched to Los Angeles a "task force," headed by Deputy Attorney General Ramsey Clark, to inaugurate a crash program of federal help for the 45-sq.-mi., riot-torn area...
Howling in from the South Pacific, a succession of violent storms with 65-m.p.h. winds has been raking a 1,000-mi. central strip where lowland floods and Andean avalanches have already left 88 dead, scores injured, some 90,000 homeless. On the Andes' eastern slopes in Argentina, more avalanches have killed another 43. In Chile the most crippling losses hit crops, livestock and public property...