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...pressed by a number of black African and Asian nations, including Guinea, Senegal, Malaysia and Pakistan, and they reportedly gained the support of 32 delegations. Libya, Syria and South Yemen boycotted the closing session, at which the invitation to Egypt was announced, but most delegates seemed delighted. Said a Pakistani: "Sadat is dead, and there's a new man in power who would desperately like to re-establish Egypt's position within the Islamic community." In the meantime, Egyptian officials declared that they hoped to meet with Jordan and the P.L.O. to seek a new approach for negotiating...
...when the government tried to rotate southern army units to the north. The troops mutinied, charging that the move violated the 1972 accord. In crushing that uprising the government killed at least 70 mutineers. But the unrest continued. On Nov. 15, southern rebels kidnaped eleven British, French and Pakistani workers from the oilfields and the Jonglei Canal...
...nation struggles through its infancy, Hyder meets Iskander Harappa, a millionaire playboy. The death struggle that ensues between these two characters is shimmeringly based on recent Pakistani history. Iskander resembles Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the charismatic civilian leader who was deposed in 1977 and later executed by General Ziaul-Haq, Pakistan's current President and a fraternal twin of the fictional Raza Hyder. Similarly, the bloody civil war that led to the transformation of East Pakistan into independent Bangladesh in 1971 is mirrored here: "The final defeat of the western forces, which led to the reconstitution of the East Wing...
Located on the Pakistani border, Punjab is one of India's most strategic states. It is also the wealthiest agricultural region, supplying the nation with 80% of its wheat. Yet when it comes to industrial development, claim the Sikhs, the government consistently slights them. Sikh moderates would be appeased by an increase in state power; a small radical minority, however, is determined to fight for an entirely separate state called Khalistan. So far, more than 100,000 Sikhs, known as the Akali Dal (Action Party) "Sacrifice Squad,"' have sworn to lay down their lives in the present struggle...
...Baumann's home is filled with Harvard--memorabilia--photographs, scrapbooks full of newspaper clippings, and hundreds of cards and letters. Included in the stacks is a bulging packet of notes from Karim Aga Khan '59, the spiritual leader of the Pakistani Islamic sect, music composed by Joseph Raposo '58, articles by Eugene Bell, and a book by poet David McCord '56 autographed "To my friends Elsie and Henry, who made Cambridge a better city...